Provincial Medical Journals *Paper read before the History of Medicine Section of the British Medical Association at the Centenary Meeting in London, 1932.
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In the provincial towns of England purely local medical journals have not been either numerous or successful. The history of Scottish and Irish medical journalism is outside my province ; but it should be recalled that in 1774 a Society of Physicians in Edinburgh started the Medical and Philosophical Commentaries modelled on the Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis that was published in Leipzig from 1752 to 1794. From these
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