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Postgrad Med J 2005;81:45-48 doi:10.1136/pgmj.2003.018424
  • History of medicine

The Royal Society of Medicine

  1. P Hunting
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Penny Hunting
 40 Smith Street, London SW3 4EP UK; penelopereformed.demon.co.uk
  • Received 14 January 2004
  • Accepted 30 January 2004

Abstract

With a membership of just over 17 500 the Royal Society of Medicine is the largest medical society in Britain. Its ancestor, the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, was founded in 1805 when a band of malcontents seceded from the Medical Society of London. By the charter of 1834 the Society became the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, which amalgamated with over a dozen other societies to create the Royal Society of Medicine in 1907. It occupies number 1 Wimpole Street, a monumental building that has been redeveloped for the Society’s bicentenary in 2005.

Footnotes

  • The Royal Society of Medicine archives are held at 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G OAE and the illustrations are provided by courtesy of the Society. The main source for this article is the author’s History of the Royal Society of Medicine. London: RSM Press, 2001.

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