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yearly. It was also resolved that "This Society do communicate with similar Societies in India and at home, requesting them to send us Reports of their proceedings, this Society promising to act in the same manner towards them" (9). The importance of India, and the establishing of a system of exchange of publications, are matters to which further reference will be made.
Three days after the inaugural meeting the Committee of management met, again at Dr. Dill's house, and recorded the names of seventeen doctors as members. A list of ten British medical periodicals was approved, and the Secretary was asked to order them through "Mr. William's the Bookseller" (10), but a decision on other titles "from America, India and other countries was referred to a subsequent meeting."
At the first general meeting of the Society an introductory address was given by Alfred Tucker, the newly elected President, on "The advantages to be gained by a Medical Association, and a cursory review of diseases incidental to Europeans in China.” The latter part included a "synoptical table of the first 1,000 patients sent on board the Minden's Hospital for treatment" (Transactions, p. 8-10), from which it is seen that dysentery (359 cases) was the most prevalent disease, followed by remittent fever (165 cases). The overall mortality rate was 31.5%. Nearly half of Tucker's address was concerned with the efficacy of the various remedies available for different diseases. It is interesting to note that he hoped "one day to see a Medical School established at Victoria. . . It is only by education that we can expect to remove the old deep-rooted prejudices of ages, and in what better manner could the pupils educated at the Schools instituted for the Chinese be made useful instruments for introducing the Scriptures among their deluded countrymen.” To this theme we shall revert later.
Apart from Dr. Tucker's introductory address, the Transactions contain four full-length papers. As these do not appear to have been indexed in the Royal Society's Catalogue (11) and are not easily identified in the Surgeon-General's Index-catalogue (12), they are here listed in the order in which they appear in the Transactions, together with the date when they were delivered, and the pages on which they appear:
1st July 1845. LITTLE, Archibald "On dysentery as it affects Europeans in China” p. 18-26.
CHINA MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY
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yearly. It was also resolved that "This Society do communicate with similar Societies in India and at home, requesting them to send us Reports of their proceedings, this Society promising to act in the same manner towards them" (9). The importance of India, and the establishing of a system of exchange of publications, are matters to which further reference will be made.
Three days after the inaugural meeting the Committee of man- agement met, again at Dr. Dill's house, and recorded the names of seventeen doctors as members. A list of ten British medical period- icals was approved, and the Secretary was asked to order them through "Mr. William's the Bookseller" (10), but a decision on other titles "from America, India and other countries was referred to a subsequent meeting."
At the first general meeting of the Society an introductory address was given by Alfred Tucker, the newly elected President, on "The advantages to be gained by a Medical Association, and a cur- sory review of diseases incidental to Europeans in China.” The latter part included a "synoptical table of the first 1,000 patients sent on board the Minden's Hospital for treatment" (Transactions, p. 8-10), from which it is seen that dysentery (359 cases) was the most pre- valent disease, followed by remittent fever (165 cases). The overall mortality rate was 31.5%. Nearly half of Tucker's address was concerned with the efficacy of the various remedies available for different diseases. It is interesting to note that he hoped "one day to see a Medical School established at Victoria. . . It is only by education that we can expect to remove the old deep rooted pre- judices of ages, and in what better manner could the pupils educated at the Schools instituted for the Chinese be made useful instruments for introducing the Scriptures among their deluded countrymen.” To this theme we shall revert later.
Apart from Dr. Tucker's introductory address, the Transactions contain four full-length papers. As these do not appear to have been indexed in the Royal Society's Catalogue (11) and are not easily identified in the Surgeon-General's Index-catalogue (12), they are here listed in the order in which they appear in the Transactions, together with the date when they were delivered, and the pages on which they appear:
1st July 1845. LITTLE, Archibald "On dysentery as it affects
Europeans in China” p. 18-26.
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