Handbook and guide to Aberdeen / compiled for the Local Executive Committee by J. Scott Riddell.

  • British Medical Association.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Handbook and guide to Aberdeen / compiled for the Local Executive Committee by J. Scott Riddell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PREFACE In compiling this Handbook and Guide as a Souvenir of the eighty-second Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, the endeavour has been to provide a brief history and description of the City of Aberdeen, of its Uni- versitv, and of its Medical and Educational Institutions, written mainly by medical men of Bon-Accord for the information of their professional brethren from the south. The Editor of the British Medical Journal kindly gave permission for the articles on the City and University to be copied from the pages of that Journal, while the section on “ Medical Institutions ” has been specially written by local medical men of recognised standing and authority. Mr. George Smith, LL.D., Director of Studies, contributes the Section on “ Educational Institutions ” ; Professor Marnoch furnishes an historical article on “ Aberdeen Doc- tors,” and Dr. \Y. R. Pirie gives an interesting account of the Artists of ” the very cradle of Scottish Art.” The inspiring story of the ancient Medico-Chirurgical Society of Aberdeen is told by the President of the Society, and Captain Rorie, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), records the carecrsof many prominent Medical Graduates of Aberdeen University, who have served their King and Country. The book is intended not only as a short medical history of the City, but also as a Guide to “ Aberdeen and twal' mile roun,” and it is hoped that the stranger within the gates may be helped on his way by the maps and descriptive routes in Section IX. I have to express my indebtedness to the numerous con- tributors to the Handbook, and specially to the Publishers, who have been unsparing in their efforts to produce a useful and artistic Souvenir of the eighty-second meeting of the Association. S Aberdeen', July 1914. J. Scott Riddell.