The Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833. Excerpt: ... A PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH COUNTY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES, FOR ASCERTAINING THB CIRCUMSTANCES, IN ALL LOCALITIES, WHICH ARE PRODUCTIVE OF DISEASE OR CONDUCIVE TO HEALTH. BY J. CONOLLY, M. D. WARWICK, Late Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the London University, Sfc. Among the objects contemplated in the formation of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, next to that of promoting the courteous feelings and that interchange of opinions which are alike honourable and advantageous to persons of a liberal profession, there appears to me to be none more important than one which provincial practitioners seem to possess peculiar opportunities of advancing. At the same time, it is one so comprehensive, as to be only fully expressed in three out of the five heads under which the objects of the association are stated, in the tenth page of the Introductory Address. To this object, therefore, I beg leave to draw the attention of the readers of the Transactions, in the hope that the suggestions with which I mean to conclude will be found both practical and conducive to many extremely useful ends. It may, perhaps, be permitted to me, who have had some experience of both situations, to remind the members of the Provincial Association, of certain advantages which the country practitioner possesses over those who exercise the profession in towns; advantages which, although chiefly evident with relation to physicians, are, in some degree, also, more readily attained by the general practitioner in the country, than in very large communities. These advantages are principally connected with the intimate acquaintance which the country practitioner gradually acquires concerning every circumstance connected with a certain limited locality. He not only becomes tho...