Westminster Medical Society

The Westminster Medical Society was a London medical discussion group in existence from 1809 to 1850–1, when it merged into the Medical Society of London.

Its founders were Benjamin Brodie and Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Baronet.^[1] Initially the Society absorbed the membership of the dormant Lyceum Medicum Londinense, founded in 1785 but inactive from about 1805.^[2]

Its Presidents included Augustus Bozzi Granville in 1829, when the profile of the Society was high during discussion of gestation period in the Gardner peerage case,^[3][4] in 1846 Henry Hancock,^[5] and William Dingle Chowne who worked for the union with the Medical Society of London.^[6] John Snow of Westminster Hospital attributed the development of his career to his association with the Society.^[7]

References

• D. Zuck, The Westminster Medical Society 1809–1850, The History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings vol. 42 (2010), pp. 9–25; ISSN 1360-6891. (PDF)