Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge

Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1783	According to Coley (2001), p.403, in 1783 George Fordyce (1736-1802) and John Hunter (1728-1793) founded the Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge in London. This was a small group of only nine members; it later grew to twelve. Coley (2001), p.409, footnote 56, indicates that the Society had gone down to ten members in 1812, and was dissolved in 1818.
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
London England	This location is supported by Coley (2001), p.403.
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1783 - 1818	Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge	Coley (2001), p.403 gives the founding year of 1783 and this name; its publications establish this name for 1793-1812; Coley (2001), p.409, footnote 56 gives the cessation year.

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.
1793-1812 (vol.1 - Vol.3)   A	Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge According to the record in the Nat. Lib. Scotland cat., the three volumes are dated 1793, 1800 and 1812. Indexed Reuss & RSLC [Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]	London, Trans. Soc. Imp. Med. [RSLC, v.1, p.xlvii] Trans. Soc. Improv. Med. Chir. Knowl. [Notes Rec. Roy. Soc., Vol. 36, No. 2 (Feb., 1982), p.240 cites 1793, I.] Trans. of a Society for Promoting Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge [Phil. Trans., Vol. 116, (1826), p.193 cites an article by Everard Home in vol. i. p.138 referring to work done by John Hunter on a popliteal aneurism; the corresponding entry in Reuss, v.15, p.199 gives the reference as Transact. of the Soc. of Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge, Vol. I. p.138 and Vol. 2. p.235.] Transact. of a Soc. for the Impr. of Med. and Chir. Knowledge [Reuss, v.13, p.494 cites Vol. I. p.294.] Transact. of a Soc. for the Improv. of Med. and Chirurg. knowledge [Reuss, v.10, p.99 cites p.91; v.12, p.78 cites Vol.3.] Transact. of a Soc. for the Improvement of Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge [Reuss, v.13, p.247 cites p.53.] Transact. of the Soc. for the Improv. of Med. and Chir. Knowledge [Reuss, v.14, p.12 cites p. 103. 115.] Transact. of the Soc. for the Improvement of Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge [Reuss, v.10, p.4 cites p.243.] Transact. of the Soc. of Med. and Chirurg. knowledge [Reuss, v.10, p.1 cites Vol.2.] Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Med. and Chir. Knowledge [Phil. Trans., Vol. 113 (1823), p.506 cites vol. i.]