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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. He was a graduate of been formed in 1806. It seems to have suffered Edinburgh and one of the chief instigators of at times from various differences of opinion the idea to start a medical school at Inst, among its members. In retrospect it would (which in fact did take place in 1835). By some appear to have been more medico-political he is still looked on as the pioneer of the than clinical and it catered for Belfast Belfast School of Medicine. He was a surgeon somewhat to the exclusion of the other parts and he actually gave the first clinical lecture in of Ulster. One must also remember that at that 1827—some eight years before the medical time the general hospital had not been built faculty was officially opened. He was ably nor was there yet even an embryonic medical supported by James Drummond who had been school, both of which would have given a focal teaching anatomy and botany at Inst. since point and would have stimulated the clinical 1818 as well as the basic sciences—he might be aspect of the society. The original members at looked on as the original Dean of the embryo that time were individual men of great faculty. importance—there were nineteen in all. They Other names in the early phase were included S.S. Thomson, who did magnificent Thomas Andrews and Henry MacCormac, a work in Belfast when typhus fever was at its pioneer in the field of medicine and height; in addition, with his love for music, he tuberculosis—both of these men will be will always be remembered as the founder of remembered in perpetuity as their heads the Belfast Philharmonic Society. Another carved in stone have been removed from the member was Dr. William Drennan, for a time a front of the old Medical Institute and now doctor in Newry and Dublin before coming to adorn the hall of this new Whitla Medical Belfast; he is perhaps best remembered for his Building. political and literary activities as he was, if not Whitla always considered that these two the founder, at least a prominent member of men were the chief architects of the first the Society of United Irishmen. He was phase of the Belfast Medical School when it brought to trial on one occasion for having was still at Inst. They brought a clinical written ‘A wicked and seditious libel’ but from element into the original society which helped this accusation he was acquitted. His grand to bind it together. daughter wrote of him that “he was a reformer The other Belfast Medical Society was but never a conspirator”. It is said that he founded in 1853 and was called The Belfast practised vaccination prior even to Edward Clinical and Pathological Society. It had an easier start. There was a young flourishing medical school and a very active hospital in on a Saturday afternoon. To get away from the Frederick Street so that there was a place for hospital atmosphere and have greater privacy the meetings as well as plenty of the society changed its venue to new quarters material—both clinical cases and pathological at No. 33 High Street, consisting of “two rooms specimens—to discuss. It was started by three with a water closet at a cost of £12.10 per eminent men. The most outstanding of these annum”. This meeting place did not prove was Andrew G. Malcolm—the others were T.H. popular and after some time the Society Purdon and Dr. William Halliday. It got returned to the hospital, but in 1884 it again immediate support. It started with 49 left the hospital and took rooms in the members but in three years the membership Museum in College Square North. This was was 109. Malcolm was the founder of modern close to Inst, and almost next door to Sir clinical medicine in Belfast. Dr. Purdon was the William Whitla’s house. The time of the first president and he was the beginning of a meeting was changed from Saturday afternoon long dynasty of Purdons who served Ulster to Thursday evening. very well. However, after ten years, finding they had Whether in 1862 there was an no privacy in the museum as other people kept amalgamation of these two societies or a take invading the library, they again decided to have over bid one does not know, and it does not their own quarters with the necessary privacy, matter, as out of this marriage a new lively and so they rented new rooms in 1893, this body, the Ulster Medical Society, was born time in Lombard Street. They only stayed there which now, over a century later, is in a very three or four years as the rooms were up some flourishing condition. six flights of stairs—too much for the older men, and so they returned to the museum, this HEADQUARTERS time with a promise of privacy and a key to the In the early period a place in which to hold library. their meetings was indeed a problem, but after In 1900 a discussion arose about the 1817, with the opening of the new hospital, the feasibility and advantage of building the society was granted the use of a room in the Society’s medical institute. It was at this stage Belfast General Hospital in Frederick Street, that Sir William Whitla was elected President Here there was in addition a small library and a for the year 1900–1901 —it should be pointed small museum with some 400 specimens. Later out that this was indeed his second time in the when Mr. Charters—a wealthy Belfast Linen chair as he had been president some fifteen Marchant—gave some money to the hospital to years before that. At the end of his first term as build a Charters wing as an extension to the president he had refused to be re-appointed as hospital proper, he also equipped two rooms he had many projects on hand at that time, but specially for the use of the Medical Society. over all the intervening years he had always Charters himself has an additional link with wished to do something for the society and this society as William MacCormac (later Sir this came to a head when he was made William) before he left Belfast in the year I870 president for the second time. It would appear to go off to the Franco-Prussian War—the year that without any discussion he at once said he in fact when he had been elected President of would like to be personally responsible for the the Ulster Medical Society—eloped with Miss new building. At a sub-committee meeting in Charters, a marriage which was a very long October 1901 the idea of a new building was and happy one. MacCormac never came back discussed and at this meeting they were told of to Belfast; he made such a reputation for Sir William’s kind offer. Professor Peter himself in the Franco-Prussian War that he Redfern at once proposed that they should was elected to the staff of St. Thomas’ Hospital, accept it. Plans were discussed and the and later was president of the Royal College of foundation stone was laid in April 1902 by Surgeons of England for five years—an Professor Redfern—he was the éminence grise unprecedented period. in medical affairs at that time. He was The keenness of the new society is shown Professor of Anatomy, virtually Dean of the by the fact that it held 39 meetings in its first Faculty, and a man of great power and eight months; these were usually held at 3 p.m. integrity. He was so much admired by Sir William that for immortality his head was one Association paid its third visit to Belfast under of the four to be cut in stone to decorate the the presidency of Mr. R.J. Johnstone (later Sir front of the new building when it was Robert) with Professor F.M.B.
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