A retrospect of fifty years / Reading Pathological Society.

  • Reading Pathological Society.
Date:
1891
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Credit: A retrospect of fifty years / Reading Pathological Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in order to facilitate histological investigations, £56 being subscribed for that purpose. The great epidemic of cholera which attacked this country in 1848 and 1849 reached Reading, and several debates took place as to the pathology of the disease. It is interesting to read the views that were then held as to aetiology and treatment. Even the communicability of cholera by impure drinking-water was then a qucestio vexata. On the death of Mu. John Bulley in 1851, Mu. Georoe May, F.R.C.S., was elected Surgical President. To Me. Geoege May, F.B.C.S., in conjunction with Me. Isaac Haeeinson, F.B.C.S., belongs the honour of having originated the Pathological Society. Suc¬ ceeding Me. Bulley as one of the Presidents, Me. May held office up to the time of his death in 1884. Soon after starting practice in Beading in 1822, he was appointed Surgeon to the Dispensary, and sub¬ sequently became Senior Surgeon and Consulting Surgeon to the Boyal Berkshire Hospital. As an operator he was cool, judicious, fearless, and enjoyed a lucrative practice among the middle and upper classes, being held in great esteem both by the pro¬ fession and by the public. “In all the relations of life, public, social, and private, he was truly respected, and he leaves behind him the precious heritage of an honoured name and a memory associated with all that is pure, true and of good report.” Two years later, i.e. in 1853, the Pathological Society resolved to hold a Dinner on the night of the Annual Meeting, the delivery of the Retrospec-