TWO HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD FOR A DISCOVERY.

Two hundred treasured issues!

Two Birthdays a Hundred Years Ago

As President, it is my great privilege and honour to propose the toast of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. The Association has only once previously met in Belfast; in 1927, twenty-two years ago to this very day (3rd June, 1949). The dinner on that occasion, presided over by the late Professor James A. Lindsay, a great clinical teacher, philosopher and classic, was ren...

Two hundred years of surgery.

Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person’s body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly worked out. Nonetheless, over the past two centuries, surgery has become radically more effective, and its violence substantially reduced — c...

Two hundred years of vaccination

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Two Hundred Years of Midwifery 1806 – 2006

The Belfast Medical Society – a forerunner of the Ulster Medical Society – was founded in 1806. Following the Act of Union, in 1801, Ireland lost its own Parliament but Dublin remained the administrative capital of the country. Indeed, at that time, many regarded Dublin as the second city in the Empire. It was only natural that all the seats of learning – University and College – had been estab...