Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 1930, Vol. 11
When it is borne in mind that the membership of the Royal Physical Society was originally largely confined to physicians, and that the subjects first discussed at its meet ings were those intimately associated with the problems that were daily presenting themselves to those who were engaged in teaching and practising medicine, it would appear that the Royal Physical Society has departed somewhat from the kind of work that its founders intended should be carried on; but when we consider that the students and graduates in the Edinburgh Medical Schools have, according to their best traditions, engaged upon medicine as a life-work that could be built up only on a sound basis of natural and biological science, it is the more readily understood how anything and everything that had even a remote bearing on the everyday studies of these men Should come to have an interest apart from its bearing on medicine, an interest that could be shared even by those who were not professed physicians, and how ultimately every man, whose love for science was such as to make him a worker in any of its fields, was welcomed with open arms by the Royal Physical Society.
It thus, naturally enough, happened that as societies arose in which purely medical questions were discussed, the agenda lists of our Society came to include more and more purely scientific papers, and it came about that what we may call pure science gradually assumed to itself the greater share of the attention of our members.
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