Dissertations read to the Royal Medical Society

Order Number	9781851171941
Type	manuscript
Title	Dissertations read to the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, 1751-1970
E-resource	http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/browse.php?cid=9781851171941
Related names	Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh
Description	Online resource (20,660 images)
Series	Pre-20th-century records on BOA (9781851172153)
Notes	Founded in 1737, this is the oldest student society of its kind in the United Kingdom, whose members were duty-bound to deliver a dissertation for examination by their peers. This collection comprises over 200 volumes of hand-written dissertations, providing a unique insight into the development in medical teaching and thought during the last 250 years. In subject, the dissertations range from framboesia to fear, from meningitis to mongolism and many represent the earliest original work of famous men of medicine. The linked author index is in two parts: vols. 1-95 (1751-1833), and vols. 96-215 (1834-1968). Scanned from the microfilm of the Royal Medical Society collections in the Edinburgh University Library. Published August 2009. British Online Archives (BOA) resources are also available on microfilm.
Subject(s)	MBGR : Medical research 1DBKS : Scotland MBX : History of medicine 3J : Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Collection price	£912 standard five-year licence

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