The prevention of preventable disease : an address to the Glasgow Obstetrical & Gynaecological Society, delivered 24th May, 1893 / by Sir Spencer Wells.

  • Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The prevention of preventable disease : an address to the Glasgow Obstetrical & Gynaecological Society, delivered 24th May, 1893 / by Sir Spencer Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE PREVENTION OF PREVENTABLE DISEASE. Mr. President and Gentlemen,—I need not say that an invitation to address a meeting of professional brethren in the commercial capital of Scotland —“ in population the second city in Great Britain’’—should be gratefully acknowledged by any one as a great honour. And when I learned that, although the Glasgow Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society was founded only eight years ago, it now numbers about 130 members (among whom are not only all the Glasgow gynaecologists, but also a large and constantly increasing number of general practitioners), I felt not only extremely grateful for the opportunity of addressing so many friends and colleagues, but also embarrassed by the difficulty of selecting some subject in which the members generally might be interested and, possibly, influenced for good. I first thought that some historical account of the more recent developments of abdominal surgery which followed the rise and pi’ogress of ovariotomy might be acceptable. But the fact that I had so recently devoted the Bradshaw lectui’e at the College of Surgeons to this subject, induced me to rather offer some published copies of this lecture for your acceptance, and ask you to read at your leisure what I said then and believe now, than to repeat here what I have already published. Copies are here on the table at the service of any one to whom they may be of use, and I will at once pass on to another subject which is not only interesting to operating surgeons, but to obstetricians and gynaecologists, who may be more usefully occupied in the consideration of some questions of preventive and curative medicine than of those surgical operations which are often performed by gynaecologists. After carefully considering how I could most usefully occupy the time so kindly placed at my disposal by your