Minute book of the Leeds Medical Club
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Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Minute book of the Leeds Medical Club
Classmark: MS 2032/18
Original reference: MS 1531
Date(s): 24 Nov 1862-02 Dec 1872
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume encased in a wooden box
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7078
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Bound, paginated volume with an index to the cases discussed in meetings at the front. The book was stored in a wooden box.
The first two pages of the volume have notes pasted in with a handwritten table of patient cases, giving details of the patient name, age, occupation and residence, their symptoms, treatment and results. A register of attendance can be found on pp. 442-444.
The first entry of the minute book is an account of how the Medical Club was founded, on 24 Nov 1862, and signed by Thomas Scattergood. The following pages contain the minutes from the Club's monthly meetings, which were held at alternate members' homes. The meetings often included discussions on particular patient cases members were working on, or members would bring in specimens to be discussed.
The final entry from 2 Dec 1872 details the recent decision to discontinue the work of the Leeds Medical Club and join with the Leeds Medical Society to form the West Riding Medical-Chirurgical Society. It was also decided that the minute book should be stored in a specially-made, locked oak box and stored at the Library of the Leeds School of Medicine for access only by the ex-Medical Club members.
There are some loose pages throughout the volume, including:
- a history of ambulances, n.d. (p.401)
- an invoice for Clifford Allbutt, from Charles Goodall, printers and stationers of Leeds, 1 Mar 1871 (p.291)
- A list of consultations for Wednesday 17 Feb 1892 at the Leeds General Infirmary (p.259)
- Letter from Samuel Smith to the Medical Club, n.d. (p.250)
- Page of two sides of notes on patient cases, labelled A-F, possibly in the hand of Thomas Scattergood, n.d. (p.230)
- letter in the front of the volume re transferring the Minute Book from the Library of the Leeds School of Medicine to the Brotherton Library, 3 Jul 1948.
Biography or history
The Leeds Medical Club was set up in November 1862, as a society for a group of Leeds medical practitioners to discuss their opinions and aspects of medical practice.
The first members were: Robert George Hardwick, Sir Clifford Allbutt, Claudius Galen Wheelhouse, William Nicholson Price, Thomas Scattergood, Thomas Richard Jessop, Edward Atkinson and Thomas Pridgin Teale.
The Medical Club was discontinued in December 1872, as with the setting up of the Leeds Medical Society it was thought to be more beneficial to join forces, rather than having two separate societies. The two clubs merged to form the West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Club in the same year.
Provenance
Deposited by the School of Medicine, University of Leeds, in 1941. Previously catalogued under the artificial collection SC MS Gen.
Catalogued as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded Medical Collections Project (2015-2018).
Access and usage
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Users are advised that this item may contain descriptions of medical symptoms and treatments and / or graphic images of wounds, injuries or disease and / or medical illustrations and images. General readers may find these upsetting.
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