An address on the history, constitution, and objects of the British Medical Association : and on medical organisation in Glasgow / by Allen Thomson.

  • Thomson, Allen, 1809-1884.
Date:
[1876?]
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    [From the British Medical Journal.] AN ADDRESS ON THI HISTORY, CONSTITUTION, AND OBJFXTS OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION : AND ON MEDICAL ORGANISATION IN GLASGOW. Delivered at the First Annual Meeting of the Glasgow and ll'est of Scotland Branch. IJy ALLEN THOMSON, M.D., I.L.D., F.R.SS.L. & E., Pn.lessor of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow ; President of the Branch ; etc. The purpose of our present meeting is to establish for Glasgow and the western districts of Scotland a local Branch of that great national professional union known as the British Medical Association. It is my first duty to thank you for the honour of requesting me to preside on this occasion. I cannot but feel that there are many closely connected with the practice of our profession who might more appropriately have been chosen, and who would have acted more efficiently as your leader in this movement; but, having been urged to accept the office of local president, I will endeavour to show my sense of your kindness by doing all in my power to promote the object of your meeting. I must, however, bespeak your indulgence for the imperfect manner in which my task may be accomplished. As the nature and objects of the British Medical Association, though very familiar to many in England, may not be known to some of those whom I now address, it may be proper that I should in the outset refer very briefly to its origin, nature, and progress. The Association was first formed in the year 1832, mainly, I be- lieve, at the suggestion and through the exertions of Sir Charles Hastings, M.D., of Worcester; and, being designed to bring together the medical practitioners of the English counties, was at first called the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. Its objects, as stated in the opening address of it* founder at the time of its first establishment, were to remove the disadvantages under which the pro- vincial members of the profession laboured from their isolation and want of co-operation ; to render their exertions for the promotion of knowledge more effective and ^useful by combination; and to main- B