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 The Medical Society of London is one of the oldest surviving medical societies (being organisations of voluntary association, rather than regulation or training) in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1773 by the Quaker physician and philanthro ...

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

Augustus Bozzi Granville Augustus Bozzi Granville FRS (born Augusto Bozzi,gestation period in the Gardner peerage case, in 1846 Henry Hancock, and William Dingle Chowne who worked for the union with the Medical Society of London. John Snow of

Westminster Hospital Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. In 1994 the ...

attributed the development of his career to his association with the Society.

References

D. Zuck, ''The Westminster Medical Society 1809–1850'', The History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings vol. 42 (2010), pp. 9–25
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