Obstetrical Society of London

The Obstetrical Society of London existed from 1858 to 1907.[1]

History

The Society was set up in 1858, the successor to an Obstetric Society dating from 1825, and in the aftermath of the Medical Act 1858. [2] The founding group included James Hobson Aveling,[3] Robert Barnes,[4] Graily Hewitt,[5] Henry Oldham,[6] Edward Rigby, William Tyler Smith, Thomas Hawkes Tanner,[7] and John Edward Tilt.[8]

Over its first 15 years the membership of the Society rose to about 600. The Act's proposals included regulation of medical practitioners, taken at the time to include midwifery; and the Society turned in time to certifying midwives.[2] The diploma introduced in 1872 recognised the role of the midwife, in supervising "normal labour".[9]

A dispute over ovariotomy, which other members opposed, led Barnes to leave and found the British Gynaecological Society in 1884.[4] In the election for the presidency at the end of that year, matters came to a head when Alfred Meadows, supported by Aveling and Barnes, failed to be chosen by the Council.[10] In 1907 both societies merged into the Royal Society of Medicine.[4]

Presidents

Presidents of the Society served a two-year term.[11]

Notes

  1. "The National Archives, Access to Archives: Royal Society of Medicine Records". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Philip K. Wilson (1996). Childbirth: The medicalization of obstetrics. Taylor & Francis. pp. 38–9. ISBN 978-0-8153-2231-3.
  3. Moscucci, Ornella. "Aveling, James Hobson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58523. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Barnes, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. "Munks Roll Details for William Morse Graily Hewitt". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  6. "Munks Roll Details for Henry Oldham". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  7. Baigent, Elizabeth. "Tanner, Thomas Hawkes". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26964. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8.  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Tilt, John Edward". Dictionary of National Biography 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  9. Professor Margaret Stacey (2 September 2003). The Sociology of Health and Healing: A Textbook. Routledge. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-134-89793-3.
  10. Ornella Moscucci (22 July 1993). The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-521-44795-9.
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 11.16 11.17 11.18 11.19 11.20 Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London Vol. XLIX, (1900) p. ix; archive.org.
  12. "Munks Roll Details for John Hall Davis". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  13. "Munks Roll Details for John Baptiste Potter". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  14. "Munks Roll Details for James Watt Black". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  15. "Munks Roll Details for George Ernest Herman". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  16. "Munks Roll Details for Sir Francis Henry Champneys". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  17. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London Vol. XLIX, (1900) p. v; archive.org.
  18. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, Vol. XLV, for the Year 1859-1907 (1904) p. ix; archive.org
  19. "Munks Roll Details for Sir Edward Malins". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  20. "Munks Roll Details for William Radford Dakin". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  21. Herbert Spencer, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P. Consulting Obstetric Physician, University College Hospital, The British Medical Journal Vol. 2, No. 4210 (Sep. 13, 1941) , pp. 389-390, at p. 389. Published by: BMJ. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20321096