scholarly journals The works of John Fothergill, M.D. Member Of The Royal College Of Physicians, And Fellow Of The Royal Society, Of London; Fellow Of The Royal College Of Physicians In Edinburgh; And Corresponding Member Of The Royal Medical Society Of Paris, And Of The American Philosophical Society At Philadelphia. With some account of his life /

1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fothergill ◽  
John Coakley Lettsom ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
American Philosophical Society ◽  
Royal Medical ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Thomas Barlow, 1845 - 1945

1945 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 158-167
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Physical Strength ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Royal Medical

No centenarians are recorded among the ordinary Fellows of the Royal Society. Sir Thomas Barlow fell short by eight months of completing his hundredth year. Physical strength and vigour of mind stayed with him almost to the end. As President of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician to Queen Victoria and the next two sovereigns in succession, he had attained the highest place among consultants in medicine. Even on retirement from these posts he continued for the next quarter of a century to live in the minds of medical men, young as well as old, for throughout this time he was head of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and through his personal activity for the welfare of that charity made his name happily familiar to both those who gave and those who received. He was justly and proudly spoken of as the Nestor of British medicine; and he loved his profession. Barlow was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in 1909, when sixty-four years old. It is of interest to note the names of the Fellows in the group of active clinical medicine who signed his certificate at that time: Lord Lister, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, Sir David Ferrier, P. H. Pye-Smith, Sir Victor Horsley, Sidney Martin, Sir Frederick Mott, H. C. Bastian, Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir William Gowers, F. W. Pavy, Sir John Rose Bradford, and Sir Patrick Manson. All these men had passed away before Barlow himself died, and the clinicians who have succeeded to them in the Society are now in smaller number.

Copeman, Sydney Arthur Monckton, (21 Feb. 1862–11 April 1947), Medical Officer, retired, Ministry of Health; ex-Member LCC (Hampstead); formerly Member Hampstead Borough Council (late Chairman Public Health and other Committees); late Senior Medical Inspector HM Local Government Board; Vice-President (late President), Epidemiological Section, Royal Society of Medicine; late Member of Council, Royal College of Physicians, London, and Zoological Society; Member of Faculty of Medicine, and Chairman of Board of Studies in Hygiene, University of London; Emeritus Lecturer on Public Health, Westminster Hospital; Knight of Grace, Order of St John of Jerusalem and Member of Chapter-General of the Order; Lt-Col in charge of Hygiene Department, Royal Army Medical College, 1916–17; late Divisional Sanitary Officer, 2nd London Division, Territorial Force; TD; Chadwick Lecturer in Hygiene, 1914; late Examiner in Public Health and in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, University of Bristol; Examiner in Public Health, Royal College of Physicians; Examiner in Hygiene and Public Health, University of Leeds; in State Medicine, University of London, and in Public Health, Royal College of Surgeons, England; Milroy Lecturer, 1898, Royal College of Physicians, London; Research Scholar and Special Commissioner, British Medical Association; Government Delegate to Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and USA in connection with investigations undertaken for Home Office, Board of Trade, Local Government Board, and Ministry of Health; Member of various Departmental Committees; Member of Livery, Apothecaries Company and Freeman of City of London; Joint Founder (1891) of Medical Research Club; Buchanan Gold Medallist, Royal Society of London, 1902; Cameron Prizeman, University of Edinburgh, 1899; Fothergillian Gold Medallist, Medical Society of London, 1899; Jenner Medallist, Royal Society of Medicine, 1925; invented Glycerinated Lymph, officially adopted, 1898, and now in general use in this and other countries for anti-smallpox vaccination; Gold Medallist, International Faculty of Sciences, 1938; Hon. Fellow Hunterian Society, 1938; joint patron of living of Hadleigh, Essex

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Smallpox Vaccination ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
International Faculty

Christopher Merret's use of experiment

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Koinm
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Charter Member ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Christopher Merret's Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum has been criticized because he only collected material rather than doing research himself. However, Merret, first Harveian Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians and charter member of the Royal Society of London, used his talents as curator to ensure as accurate a description of plants and animals as was possible in 1666, to make the most complete compilation of his day. His steps to collect new plants, his translation of and interpolations to Neri's The Art of Glass , his garden of herbs, and his reports to the Royal Society on his experiments show his recognition of the importance of experiment.

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