MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SOCIETIES. The first meeting of the Congres Medical International was held at Paris in 1867 ; a Bulletin has been issued annually since 1868, and the first Surgical Congress was held in Paris in 1885. The first Congres Periodique Internat. d'Ophthalmologie took place at Brussels in 1857. The Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons of London, Edinburgh and Dublin do not come within our scope. The Medical Society of London (1773) is the oldest in the metropolis; it has issued Memoirs (1787-1805), Transactions (1810, etc.), and Proceedings (1872, etc.). The Royal Society of Medicine was formed, by Royal charter, in 1907 by the amalga mation of the following societies: Roy. Med. and Chir. Soc. (1805), Pathological Soc. (1846), Epidemiological Soc. (1850), Odontol. Soc. of Gt. Britain (1856), Obstetrical Soc. (1858), Clinical Soc. (1867), Dermatological Soc. of London (1882), British Gynaecological Soc. (1884), Neurolog. Soc. (1886), Brit ish Laryngol. Rhinol. and Otological Assoc. (1888), Laryngol. Soc. (1893), Soc. of Anaesthetists (1893), Dermatol. Soc. of Gt. Brit. and Ireland (1894), Otological Soc. (1899), Soc. for Study of Diseases in Children (1900), British Electro-therapeutic Soc. (1901) and the Therapeutical Soc. (1902). Most of these societies had separate Transactions or Proceedings which are now incor porated in the Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. Other British or London societies (past and present) include the Abernethian Society (1795), which issues Proceedings; Anatomical Soc. of Gt. Brit. and Ireland (1887); British Dental Association (1880), with a Journal (1880, etc.) ; British Homoeopathic Association (1859), with Annals (1860, etc.) ; British Medical Association (1832), which has more than forty home and colonial branches, and pub lishes British Medical Journal (1857, etc.); Hahnemann Publish ing Society (1852), Materia Medica (1852, etc.); Harveian So ciety (1830; Hunterian Society (1819), Trans.; Lister Institute (incorp. 1891) ; Medico-Legal Soc. of London, Trans.; Medico Psycholog. Assn. of Gt. Britain and Ireland (1841, incorp. 1895)
New Sydenham Society (1858), which published Biennial Retro spect (1867, etc.), and translations and reprints of books and papers of value, succeeded the old Sydenham Society 1858), which issued 4o vols.; Ophthalmological Society (1880), Trans.; Pathological Society of Gt. Brit. and Ireland, Jour. of Pathology and Bacteriology; Pharmaceutical Society (1841), with museum, Pharmaceutical Journal (1842, etc.) ; Physiological Asso ciation (1876), Journ. of Physiology (1878, etc.) ; Brit. Psycholog. Soc., Brit. Jn. Med. Psychol.; Soc. for Study of Inebriety Brit. M. of Inebriety; Med. Off. Health Assn. (1884), Jo. of School Hygiene; Roy. Med. Psychol. Assn. (1926), hi. of Mental Oswaldo Cruz, formerly Institute de Manguinhos (for the promo tion of experimental pathology) ; Soc. Med. e Cirurgia, Santiago, Soc. Med. JAPAN : Tokyo, Soc. for Adv. of Med. Sc., Trans. (1885, etc.).
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