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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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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    success of the association, are ardent and strong; and who are only detained, by paramount neces¬ sity, from being here this day, to express their conviction that such an association, as we are now about to form, is not only desirable, but loudly called for, as positively necessary, if we, in the present day, mean to avail ourselves of all the advantages which the stream of time has carried down to us. When, Gentlemen, I contemplate these promising omens, can I, for one moment, doubt the success of our enterprise? can I, for an instant, cease to devote my poor abilities to advance the progress of the good cause in which we are engaged ? Neither, Gentlemen, will I affect to hide, on the present occasion, the feelings of unmixed joy which I experience in the reflection, that the Infirmary of my native county has the honour of receiving within its venerable walls, the first meeting that is called for carrying into effect the admirable purposes we have in view: because I feel that the more subservient such institutions can be made to the advancement of medical know¬ ledge, the more instrumental will they ever be, in relieving the afflictions of the sick poor who seek an asylum within their w alls. The benefits which arise from the association of men, for the advancement of general science, have been long felt and acknowledged. Witness, more especially, the recent establishment of the British Association for the advancement of Science/’ in which are enrolled the names of scientific men from all parts of Great Britain ; a vast proportion of whom assembled together at their late meeting