MEDICAL LIBRARIES
The arrangement is alphabetical by place.
ABERDEEN abe Medico-Chirurgical
Society 1789 [Medical Society]
Library begun in
1791. Marischal College. Changed name in 1811. Dispersed in 1967. Cats. 1792,
1796, 1803, 1812 (Aberdeen U). Records 1789-1985 - Private. NRA Scotland 2969.
BELFAST ant Belfast
Medical Society 1806
Belfast
Directory, 1808. Became the Ulster Medical Society in 1862.
BIRKENHEAD che Medical
Reading Rooms 1849
BBTI.
BIRMINGHAM war Birmingham
Medical Library 1790?
Cat. 1793
(Liverpool U).
BIRMINGHAM war Birmingham
Medical Library 1824
- 1831.
BIRMINGHAM war Birmingham
Medical Library 1825
- 1843. In 1844
books bought by the Birmingham Library.
BIRMINGHAM war Queen's
College Medical School 1825
Birmingham
University.
BRIGHTON sus Brighton
& Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Library 1847
BRISTOL glo Bristol
Medical Society 1788?
Ceased by 1793?
BUCHAN abe Buchan
Medical Society 1846
-1935. Records
(Aberdeen UL).
BURY ST EDMUNDS suf
Bury & Suffolk Medical Society 1830?
Cat. 1833.
Library History, viii/5, p. 148.
BURY ST EDMUNDS suf
Suffolk Medical Book Club 1812
- 1817?
CAMDEN TOWN msx Royal
Veterinary College 1791
(Archives)
CARLISLE cum Medical
Institution 1824
Listed in Parson
& White, History, Directory ... of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1829.
CHATHAM ken Chatham
Medical Library 1820?
Subs. list
(1824).
COLCHESTER ess Medical
Society 1774
Listed in
White's Essex Directory, 1848. Still exists.
CORK cor Cork
Medical School 1849
History 1949 BL
8370.f.35/3.
CUPAR fif Fife
Medico-Chirurgical Society 1825
Fife &
Kintross Register, 1827.
DAVENTRY noh Medical
Society 1780?
DUBLIN dbl Apothecaries'
Hall 1845?
Listed in Post
Office Dublin Directory, 1849.
DUBLIN dbl Dublin
School of Medicine 1824
Listed in Post
Office Dublin Directory, 1849.
DUBLIN dbl Richmond
Hospital School of Anatomy 1800?
Listed in Post
Office Dublin Directory, 1849.
DUBLIN dbl Royal
College of Physicians 1713
(Archives)
DUBLIN dbl Royal
College of Surgeons 1784
(Archives)
EDINBURGH edi Anatomical
Society of Edinburgh 1833
Minutes 1833-43
(Edinburgh UL).
EDINBURGH edi Harveian
Society 1782
Pigot's
Directory of Scotland, 1837.
EDINBURGH edi Hunterian
Medical Society 1824
Cat. 1830.
EDINBURGH edi Royal
College of Physicians 1683
Cats. 1767,
1793. (Archives)
EDINBURGH edi Royal
College of Surgeons 1699
Cat. 1863.
(Archives)
EDINBURGH edi Royal
Dick School of Veterinary Studies 1823
Edinburgh U.
(Archives)
EDINBURGH edi Royal
Medical Society 1753?
Cats. 1812,
1822, 1837. A. Hume, The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United
Kingdom, 1853. Sold in 1969-70. (Archives)
EXETER dev Exeter
Dispensary 1848?
BBTI.
EXETER dev Exeter
Medical Library 1847?
BBTI.
GLASGOW lak Faculty
of Physicians' Library 1845?
Same as Faculty
of Medicine? Listed in Slater's Directory of Scotland, 1852.
GLASGOW lak Royal
College of Physicians & Surgeons 1697
Cats. 1741,
1778, 1817, 1799, 1842. (Archives)
HUDDERSFIELD yor
Huddersfield Medical Library 1814
- 1926? Kept in
the Dispensary. Kirklees Archives.
INVERNESS inv Medical
Society of the North 1820?
Inverness
Courier, 6 June, 1822.
IPSWICH suf Suffolk
Medical Book Society 1824
- 1909. Cats.
1841 (Ipswich RO). Minutes 1824-1909 (Ipswich RO). Slater's National &
Commercial Directory, 1850.
KINGSTON-UPON-HULL yor
Medical Subscription Librar 1795?
Books in the
Infirmary.
LANCASTER lan Lancaster
Medical Book Club 1823
At the
Dispensary. Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
LEEDS yor Medical
Library 1840?
Listed in
Slater's Directory of Scotland, 1852. Listed in Slater's National Commercial
Directory of Ireland, 1847.
LEEDS yor School
of Medicine 1831
History 1982
X329/15691.
LEICESTER lei Medical
Library 1805
Started as a
book club. Cat. 1839 (Leicester PL). Cat. 1990 - YC.1991.a.4859. White's
Directory of Leicestershire, 1846.
LEICESTER lei New
Medical Society 1830?
Cat. 1839.
Library History, vi/2, p. 32.
LINCOLN lin Lincoln
Medical Library 1825
- 1842. Cat.
1829 (Lincoln PL). Library History, vi/2, p. 34.
LINCOLN lin Lincoln
Medical Society 1787
Subs. list.
LIVERPOOL lan Liverpool
Chemists' Association 1850?
BBTI.
LIVERPOOL lan Liverpool
Medical Library 1775
Started as a
book club; then at the Infirmary from 1779. Cats. 1799 (Liverpool PL), 1812,
1823, 1838, 1861 (Liverpool PL, Liverpool &U). History, 1979.
LIVERPOOL lan Medical
Institution 1837
History 1953 BL
7682.bb.2. Took over Medical Library.
LONDON msx Askesian
Society 1801
-1808. Minutes
(Wellcome Institute).
LONDON msx British
Homoeopathic Society 1844
London
Homoeopathic Hospital.
LONDON msx Hunterian
Society of London 1819
Cambridge
University.
LONDON msx Medical
& Philosophical Society 1795
St Bartholomew's
Hospital.
LONDON msx Medical
Society of London 1773
Wellcome
Institute. Cat. 1803; 1829.
LONDON msx Pharmaceutical
Society of Great Britain 1841
LONDON msx Physical
Society 1771
Guy's Hospital.
LONDON msx Royal
Army Medical College 1816
(Archives)
LONDON msx Royal
College of Physicians 1525
(Archives)
LONDON msx Royal
College of Psychiatrists 1841 [Association of Medical Officers of
Asylums]
(Archives)
LONDON msx Royal
College of Surgeons 1540
(Archives)
LONDON msx Royal
London Ophthalmic Hospital 1805 [London Dispensary]
Institute of Ophthalmology.
(Archives)
LONDON msx Royal
Medical & Chirurgical Society 1805
A. Hume, The
Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom, 1853.
LONDON msx Society
of Apothecaries 1400?
Guildhall.
Chelsea Physic Garden.
MANCHESTER lan Medical
Society 1834
W.E.A. Axon,
Handbook of the Public Libraries of Manchester & Salford, 1877. Slater's
Directory of Manchester, 1850. Listed in Slater's Directory of Scotland, 1852.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
nob College of Medicine 1834
Newcastle
University.
NORTHAMPTON noh Morthampton
Medical Library 1810?
Kept in the
Infirmary.
NORWICH nor Medical
Library 1840?
Blyth's Norwich
Guide, 1842 as Medical Literary Institution. Listed in White's Directory of
Norfolk, 1845.
NORWICH nor United
Medical Book Society 1824
Cats. 1826,
1832, 1845 (Norwich PL). Library History, viii/5, p. 147.
NOTTINGHAM not Medical
Book Society 1814?
Nottingham
University. Cat. 1831. Rules 1828 (Nottingham PL).
PAISLEY ren Medical
Society 1825?
Listed in
Pigot's New Commercial Directory of Scotland for 1826-7
PLYMOUTH dev Medical
Society 1794
Plymouth Medical
Library. Still exists.
READING ber Medico-Chirurgical
Society 1824
Merged in 1899
with the Pathological Society. Royal Berks. Hospital.
READING ber Reading
Pathological Society 1841
Royal Berks.
Hospital.
SHEFFIELD yor Medical
Library 1845?
Listed in
Slater's Directory of Scotland, 1852.
SHERBORNE dor Western
Medical Society 1800?
Probably a
medical book club. Western Flying Post, 12 June, 1809.
SHREWSBURY shr Salopian
Medical Library 1810?
Books in the
Infirmary. Cat. 1810 (Shrewsbury PL).
STRATFORD-ON-AVON war
Medical Book Society 1820?
Subs. list.
Known after 1824 as the Medical Library.
SUNDERLAND dur Sunderland
Medical Library 1814
Succeeded the
Medical Society. Cat. 1820 (Newcastle PL).
SUNDERLAND dur Sunderland
Medical Society 1810?
Cat. 1811
(Newcastle PL).
TAUNTON som Taunton
Medical Society 1807
Books kept at
Hospital. - 1822.
WARWICK war Warwick
& Leamington Phrenological Society 1834
County Museum,
Warwick.
WESTMINSTER msx Westminster
Medical Library 1800?
Picture of
London, 1803.
WESTMINSTER msx Westminster
Medical Subscription Library 1785?
Times, 18 March,
1789.
YORK yor York
County Hospital Medical Library 1810
Books to be
transferred to the University of York in 2004.
YORK yor York
Medical Society 1832
York County
Hospital.
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