| Description | Recording Secretary's book. Contains manuscript and printed minutes of presentations and subjects discussed at the ordinary and clinical meetings of the Society. The minutes of Council meetings and other business discussed at the meetings is not recorded. This information is provided in the regular minute books of the Society. talks delivered at meetings, the latter sent for publication in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet. There is some overlap however and the content of presentations delivered at meetings is sometimes recorded in both this volume and the regular minutes. For example, see printed minute of ordinary meeting held on 7 April 1938 and report of an address on the therapeutic uses of progesterone on page 327. The same address is recorded almost exactly in minute book 22 (printed minutes of these meetings duplicate those found in the regular minute books. A summary of the contents is as follows:
25 October 1923: Presidential Address delivered by Dr. Alexander Ogston on 'some modern methods of anaesthesia' (page 15).
1 November 1923: Clinical meeting at which several cases were discussed including one of acroparaesthesia (page 17).
17 January 1924: Ordinary meeting - Discussion of gall-stones (p.23).
22 May 1924: Special Meeting - Report of lecture on the principle of early active movement in relation to fractures of the upper extremity by Mr. J. W. Dowden of Edinburgh (page 33).
30 October 1924: Presidential Address by Dr. G. M. Duncan on tumours of the breast (page 37).
29 October 1925: Presidential Address by Dr. Peter Howie on the medical hand in modern industry (page 61).
3 December 1925: Clinical meeting - Various cases were presented for discussion including a case of diffuse carcinomatosis of the breast by Mr. William Anderson, a case of rheumatic infection in a boy aged six years old by Dr. J. Craig and the case of a man of seventy with a slowly-growing ulcer on his left ear by Dr. J. F. Christie.
14 January 1926: Ordinary meeting - Paper by Dr. J. Ross Mackenzie: 'Some advantages of gas and oxygen anaesthesia in major surgery' (page 71).
28 October 1926: Presidential Address by Dr. James Crombie on the treatment of fractures of the mandible (p.81).
26 October 1927: Presidential Address by Dr. J. F. Christie on skin diseases, with special reference to treatment (p.103).
5 April 1928: Ordinary meeting - Dr. Alexander Lyall read a paper on basal metabolism in clinical medicine (page 117).
22 November 1928: Annual Business Meeting - Printed list of office-bearers and members enclosed (page 129).
7 February 1929: Ordinary meeting - Papers on calcium metabolism by Dr. Lyall and infantile tetany by Dr. Stephen presented (page 137).
4 April 1929: Ordinary meeting - Demonstration of clinical cases given by staff of the Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children (page 141).
October 1929: Presidential Address by Professor Alexander Low: 'Anthropology and Medicine' (page 147).
3 April 1930: Ordinary meeting - Mr. Andrew Fowler showed the after-results of operations on two patients for diastasis of the femur and habitual dislocation of the patella (page 161).
30 October 1930: Presidential Address by Dr. Charles Forbes on the 'place of the family doctor in the supply of an adequate medical service for the wage-earning and poorer classes in the Aberdeen region and the North of Scotland' (page 167).
2 May [1931]: Loose papers enclosed recording meeting of Society at which Dr. Magee of the Rowett Institute delivered a paper on 'Diet and Peptic Ulcers in Laboratory Animals'. A typescript copy of this paper is also enclosed. It is noted that Professors J. J. R. Macleod and Ashley W. Mackintosh and others contributed to the discussion which followed (page 177).
19 March 1932: Two papers read on subject of the cortical extract of suprarenal glands and its use in the treatment of Addison's disease (page 189).
2 June 1932: Pathological meeting - Paper on link between a 'diet poor in iron and blood poor in haemoglobin'. Several anatomical specimens were demonstrated by Professor Low including a vertebral column illustrating the 'marked changes occurring in advanced spondylitis deformans' (page 195)
2 March 1933: Paper read by Dr. W. G. Evans on the treatment of cancer by radium (page 211).
2 November 1933: Clinical meeting - Various cases presented for discussion including two cases of Localised Osteitis Fibrosa Cystica (page 221).
1 March 1934: Dr. H. Ross Souper read a paper on 'Bronchoscopy and Oesophagoscopy in Diagnosis and Treatment' (page 233).
7 June 1934: Ordinary meeting - Paper: 'On Surgery of the Sympathetic Nervous System', Professor Learmonth (page 239).
25 October 1934: Printed copy of Presidential Address by Mr. Alexander Mitchell (page 245).
6 December 1934: Reprint from BMJ enclosed: 'Weil's Disease (Leptospirosis)', Professor Davidson, Professor Campbell and Dr. Smith (pages 250-251).
20 May 1935: Ordinary meeting - Dr. Lawrence gave an address on 'Diabetic Emergencies in General Practice' (page 261).
2 April 1936: Ordinary meeting - Dr. Craig showed a case of a female age 33 suffering from myasthenia gravis and Dr. Anderson showed an usual type of Lupus Vulgaris (page 287).
2 December 1937: Clinical meeting - Cases demonstrated by members of the surgical staff of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary including a case of a female patient who had been seized with cramp like pains in the hypogastrium, low back and thighs followed by swelling in the left lower abdomen; a case of long-term indigestion and a case of post-operative spreading gangrene of the skin after closure of a perforated duodenal ulcer without drainage (page 315).
[Notes of lecture enclosed, author unknown and not dated, possibly relating to a military camp (page 317).]
3 February 1938: Ordinary meeting - Dr. Anderson read a paper on the parathyroid glands (page 319, 2 pages of notes).
16 June 1938: Special meeting held to discuss proposed location of Fraser Nursing Home (page 333).
2 March 1939: Ordinary meeting - Professor Cruickshank delivered an address entitled: 'Byways in Bacteriology' (two pages, pages 349-350).
The minutes end on page 353 with a record of a special meeting held on the 24 April 1939 to hear an address by Dr. Robertson, Pathologist to the Mayo Clinic on: 'Pathogenesis and Complications of Duodenal Ulcer'. They begin again on page 357 with the minute of an ordinary meeting held on the 6 December 1945.
[At page 361, various loose typescript pages have been enclosed: summary of talk by Mr. Collins, sent to Cairo with the 15th Scottish General Hospital and later captured at Tobruk; part of an address by Dr. Low on twins; part of an address by Dr. Richards beginning with 'the results of compression or injury upon the structure of the arterial wall in the different portions of the arterial tree'.]
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