Nomenclature of diseases : prepared for the use of the medical officers of the United States Marine-Hospital Service / by the supervising surgeon, John M. Woodworth.

  • United States. Marine Hospital Service.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Nomenclature of diseases : prepared for the use of the medical officers of the United States Marine-Hospital Service / by the supervising surgeon, John M. Woodworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The construction of this Nomenclature has been so long in hand, that it may be proper and not uninteresting to record the circum- stances of its origin and progress. The idea which led to the formation of a general Nomen(ilature of Diseases originated in a correspondence between Dr. Dumbreck, of the Medical Department of the Army, and Dr. Sibson, respecting the need of such a Nomenclature for use in the Army Medical Service. But at the Comitia majora of the Royal College of Physicians, held on the ninth day of July, 1857, it was resolved, on the motion of Dr. Nairne, in consequence of a letter addressed to the College by the Hospitals Committee of the Epidemiological Society, ' That a Com- mittee be appointed to prepare a Nomenclature of Diseases, and that such Committee have full power to co-operate with other bodies.' The following Fellows of the College were appointed members of the Committee by the President of the College:— Dr. Mayo—President. Dr. Babington. Dr. Alderson—Treasurer, Dr. Addison. now President Dr. Nairne. Dr. Hawkins—Registrar. Dr. Barker. Dr. Jeaffreson, 1 Dr. Budd. Dr. Pitman, Dr. Gull. Censors. -r^ ^ T > vensors. _ _ , Dr. Bence Jones, 1 Dr. Baly. Dr. Risdon Bennet, 3 I^r- Barclay. Dr. Munk—Librarian. Dr. Sibson. Dr. Parkes. At the first meeting of the Committee Dr. Sibson was appointed Secretary. The following representative members afterwards consented to co- operate in carrying into effect the objects of the Committee:— Mr. Stanley, President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Dr. Druitt, Representative of the Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Sir John Liddell, Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy. Dr. Logan, C.B., Director-General of the Medical Department of the Army. Sir J. Ranald Martin, C.B., Physician to the Secretary of State for India in Council