The collective investigation record / edited for the Collective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association by Professor Humphry and F.A. Mahomed.

  • Humphry, George Murray, Sir, 1820-1896.
Date:
1883-4
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Credit: The collective investigation record / edited for the Collective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association by Professor Humphry and F.A. Mahomed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many persons have been induced to assist, and so much good result has been attained. The various branches of the Asso- ciation responded to his appeals to form committees; eminent men undertook to draw up memoranda, to assist in framing cards of inquiry, and to analyse and report upon the results of the information obtained. If, on the one hand, it be felt that the expenses are considerable, it must, on the other hand, be re- membered that rarely has so much time and labour been freely given by various hard-working men in the hope that the members of the profession would appreciate and respond to their efforts. It was no small encouragement when Sir William Gull, Sir James Paget, Professor Acland, and others, gave their weighty sanction and approval at the Jermyn Street meeting last autumn; but the greatest encouragement of all has been the number of carefully filled cards which have been received, especially on pneumonia, from the members of the Association living in the various districts of the country. For this shows, not only a widely extended perception of the need of the work, but the willingness of a large number to assist in carrying it out. It was soon found that the amount of material accumulating was such that it would be necessary to relieve the Journal of much of it, and that it was of such value as to deserve a separate publication, which would have the further great advantage of presenting the information collected in a compact form convenient for study and reference. It was therefore agreed at the meeting of the Committee of Council in April, that an 8vo. volume, under the title of the “ Collective Investigation Record,” should be issued early in July. The additional material which has since accumulated has not only shown the necessity of this, but the necessity also of further issues of the same hind; and, unques- tionably, nothing would contribute so much to the success of the movement, to inspire confidence in it and to promote and give value to the results obtained from it as the publication, at stated periods, of the memoranda, results, original contributions, and other documents connected with the work of Collective In- vestigation. This volume is therefore offered to the members of the Association and other members of the profession, in the hope that it will prove worthy of their acceptance, and that it may be the