An account of the first meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held in the board room of the Worcester Infirmary, on Thursday, July 19th, 1832, : containing an address, delivered by Charles Hastings, M. D. together with a correct report of the proceedings at the meeting.

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[1832]
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Credit: An account of the first meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held in the board room of the Worcester Infirmary, on Thursday, July 19th, 1832, : containing an address, delivered by Charles Hastings, M. D. together with a correct report of the proceedings at the meeting. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A D D R ESS, 1 congratulate you, Gentlemen, that the day for forming a Provincial Medical and Surgical Association has, at length, arrived. An associa¬ tion which, I trust, is destined to exercise no inconsiderable influence on the future progress of medical science Feeling, as I have long done, the disadvantages under which the prosecutors of medicine, resident in English provincial towns have laboured, in consequence of the want of any system of co-operation, by which their sepa¬ rate exertions, for the promotion of our knowledge of the healing art, may be so united as to render them more influential, and more extensively useful; I cannot but hail this day, Hunc Icetmn medicis diem, as one of peculiar promise ; as one likely to lead to the most important results. When I see assembled around me some of the brightest ornaments of our profession ; and when I call to mind the fact that, in addition to those now present, our association already numbers amongst its future members, a large proportion of provincial physicians and surgeons, who are, and have been, zealous and successful cultivators of our science ; whose wishes, moreover, for the R