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Cecil William Kidd (1902/3–85)
Cecil William Kidd (1902/3–85) President of the Ulster Medical Society 1962–63 Presidential Opening Address Ulster Medical Society 18th October 1962 SIR WILLIAM WHITLA PROFILE OF A BENEFACTOR IT is written in the Bible that we should take time “to praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.” This year—the centenary year of the Ulster Medical Society—seemed an appropriate point of time for such remembrance and reflection. I chose, therefore, the name of one, William Whitla, a past President and benefactor of our Society, as the subject of my address. On 11th December, 1933, Sir William Whitla died at his home at Lennoxvale. He was in his eighty-third year and had been confined to his room for some four years following a “stroke.” From being a dominant figure, in the forefront of medical, university, and civic occasions, he had almost disappeared in the last decade of his long life from the contemporary life and social scene of the city. It was indeed almost with a sense of shock that one realised that this extraordinary figure had passed on. In his Image courtesy of Dr Brian Fleming/Royal County Down Golf Club latter years, when visited by his medical friends, it to particular facets of his life, and finally I will was clear to them that, always a religious man, he had venture on some assessment of his personality. In become absorbed in theological matters. I am told the time available to me on this occasion I will not that he was surrounded by books concerned with attempt to touch upon the history, local or social, Holy Writ—in particular with the prophet Daniel—and of the times in which he lived. -
THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 78Th ANNUATI MEETING, LONDON, JULY 22Nd to JULY 29Th, 1910
S U PPI3 EME NT TO THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. LONDON: SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH, 1910. CONTENTS. PAGE _ i'GE The Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the British Notice of Extraordinary General Meetings, and of Medical Asseciation.-PROGRAMME OF BsINESS. .. 381 Special and General Meetings of council ... ... 400 DISPENSING AND PRESCRIBING.-Conference between the Meetings of Branches and Divisions: British Medical Association Hitb and Bristol Branch: Trowbridge Division 396 and the British Pharmaceatical G(lasgow and West of Scotland Branen: Glasgow North-Western Conference ... ... ... ... ... 402 Division ... ... .. -. ... 336 METROPOLITAN COUNTIES BRANCH .. ... 402 rLaneashire and Cheshire Branch: Manchester Central DivisIon 396 Metropolitan Counties Branch: City Division ... ... 396 VITAL STATISTICS .... .... 402 Norwood Division ... ... 398 NAVAL AND MILITARY APPOINTMENTS- .... ... 402 Westminster Division ... 398 North Lancashire and South Westmorland Branch: Furness VACANCIES AND APPOINTMENTS ... ... 403 Division ... ... ... 398 BIRTHS, MABRIAGES. AND DBATHS South-Eastern Branch: Eastbourne Division ... 399 ... " .. 403 Folkestone Division ... ... 399 DIARY FOR THE WEEK ... ... 403 Reigate Division ... 399 OALENDAR ... ... 404 Tunbridge Wells Division ... ... 399 S3outhern Branch: Jersey Division.. ... ... ... 400 ANNUAL MEETING.-List of Hotels and Boarding-houses ... 406 THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 78th ANNUATI MEETING, LONDON, JULY 22nd to JULY 29th, 1910. 5 HE Annual General Meeting of the British The University possesses a large number of spacious Medical Association this year will be held on rooms which will be available for the general purposes July 22nd, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th, in the Uoiver- of the Annual Meeting, including the Reception Room, sity of London and the adjacent collegiate buildings Pathological Museum, and the Annual Exhibition, at South Kensington. as well as for some of the Sections. -
The Treasures of the Ulster Medical Society
THE TREASURES OF THE ULSTER Jenner. He was involved in the foundation of MEDICAL SOCIETY the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and A talk delivered to the Ulster Medical when it opened its doors in 1815 it was he who Society in 1978 gave the inaugural address. Other people by involved in the early stage were Dr. Andrew Sir Ian Fraser Marshall and his brother-in-law James Drummond. It seems to have been difficult to keep this trio of prima donnas together. It would be impossible to talk about the Possibly there was a certain amount of treasures of the new Whitla Building without snobbery about it as well, as it was said “the mentioning the origin of the Ulster Medical society would consider only the most Society and this in turn brings in Sir William respectable physicians, surgeons and Whitla as indeed the society, its treasures and apothecaries”. I suppose the apothecaries were the building itself are all linked together by a lucky to be able to creep in at all. common cord. The society seems, through some THE ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY differences of opinion among its members, to The Ulster Medical Society as it exists today have almost ceased to function for a time, but was established in 1862, but there had been in after a lapse it resuscitated itself thanks to the existence for some time before that two influence of a few outstanding men, societies which were then amalgamated . The One of these was James McDonnel from the first of these, The Belfast Medical Society, had Glens of Antrim. -
Ll ULSTER MEDICAL JOURNAL P
lL ULSTER MEDICAL JOURNAL p PUBLISHED ON BEHALF OF THE ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIlEY Vol. XXXVI SUMMER 1967 No. 2 THE HISTORY of the ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY by R. W. M. STRAIN B.Sc., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.I. ADDRESS delivered to THE ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY 9th FEBRUARY, 1967 Prepared at the request of the Council 73 Introduction THIS is quite literally two papers. When the Council of the Ulster Medical Society invited the writer to bring R. H. Hunter's account of its history up to date, it was to cover a period entirely within his own member- ship of the Society, and he had at his disposal primary sources of information in the Minutes of the Society, of the Council and of the Trustees of the Whitla Medical Institute. As it was 30 years since Richard Hunter delivered his address to the Society, and outside the experience of many of the present Fellows and Members, the author was further asked to review the entire span of the Society's existence. For this latter purpose there was no need to go deeper than the secondary sources of information already available, and reference to these is made in the bibliographical note at the end of this communication. Peace, it is said, is indivisible. So too, it is difficult to separate the history of the Society from that of the community it serves or from the activities and person- alities of its individual members. Selection is both difficult and invidious. On this occasion it is nice to be able to say that if any one disagrees with the landmarks the writer has selected, he can lay the blame on the Council for inviting him to take on this task.