Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1802	According to Maylender (1926-1930), v.4, p.25, this Society was founded in 1802 by two physicians, Gaetano Gandolfi and Matteo Venturoli. Maylender (1926-1930), v.4, p.25 refers to this Society as the Accademia Medica; but Maylender (1926-1930), v.4, p.33 refers to it as the Società Medica, which is more likely correct, since that it how it appears in the name of its 1807 publication. Maylender (1926-1930), v.4, p.25 indicates that in 1807 it published the first volume of its Memorie. According to Maylender (1926-1930), v.4, pp.25-26, material for a second volume was ready, and would have been published if the French governor had not ordered the formation of the Ateneo Bolognese through the merger of several existing Bolognese bodies, including the Società Medica. It appears (Maylender (1926-1930), v.7, p.26), however, that the Ateneo Bolognese never actually came into existence, and in 1812 even the record of its symbolic foundation was erased. According to Maylender (1926-1930), v.7, p.26, the Society was revived in 1823 with the designation Medico-chirurgica. According to Maylender (1926-1930), v.7, p.33. the Società Medica, which had been shut down in 1812 through the desire of the French governor to centralize the Bolognese academies and societies into the projected Ateneo, was replaced in 1823 by another society entitled Medico-Chirurgica. There are records in the SBN Italian Union cat. for publications as late as 1892 (Inibizione del vomito...) and 1899 (Ancora sulla patogenesi e significato semeiologico...) in which the author statement gives Societa medico-chirurgica di Bologna. But there is a record in the SBN Italian Union cat. for a publication as early as 1897 (Osservazioni e ricerche relative al valore patogenetico...) in which the author statement gives societa medica-chirurgica di Bologna. It is not absolutely clear when the change occurred (likely the mid- to late 1890s), but Società Medica Chirurgica di Bologna is the name currently used at its website ( OR ).
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
Bologna Italy	This location is supported by the name of the Society.
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1807	Società Medica di Bologna	Its journals establish this name for 1807.
1824 - 1899	Società Medico-Chirurgica di Bologna	Its journals establish this name from 1824 onward; a record in the SBN Italian Union cat. establishes this name as late as 1899.
1897 -	Società Medica Chirurgica di Bologna	A record in the SBN Italian Union cat. establishes this name as early as 1897; it is the current name used at its website ( OR ).
Società Medica Chirurgica di Bologna = Medical and Surgical Society of Bologna OR .

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.
1807   A	Memorie della Società Medica di Bologna Indexed RSLC [GBV German Union cat.]	Bologna, Mem. Soc. Med. [RSLC, v.1, p.xxi]
1824/25 (Oct.-Dec.) (1.,1-2)   B	Giornale di Medicina e Chirurgia / Società Medico-Chirurgica di Bologna The numbering statement is given by the record in the GBV German Union cat.. Continued by C. Indexed RSLC [GBV German Union cat.; Cat. Ital. Periodici (ACNP)]	Bologna, Opuscoli [RSLC, v.1, p.xxi]
1824/25 - 1834 (1.,3 - 9.,19)   C	Opuscoli della Società Medico-Chirurgica di Bologna The numbering statement is given by the record in the GBV German Union cat.. According to the record in the Cat. Ital. Periodici (ACNP), this title is continued by E. Continues B. Continued by E. Indexed RSLC [GBV German Union cat.; Cat. Ital. Periodici (ACNP)]	Bologna, Opuscoli [RSLC, v.1, p.xxi]
1829 - (1. - )   D	Bullettino delle Scienze Mediche : pubblicato per cura della Società Medico-Chirurgica di Bologna e compilato dai soci. The author statement is given by the record in the Bib. Naz. Napoli cat.. The author statement in the GBV German Union cat. is Scuola Medica di Bologna, but the Note field indicates that part of the time the author statement was Società Medico-Chirurgica di Bologna. The record in the GBV German Union cat. gives the numbering statement: 1.1829 - 163.1991,1 and also indicates that the title ceased in 1991. But the Society website ( OR ) indicates that this title is still being published; it gives the author statement for Anno CLXXVI - 2004 Fascicolo 3 as Organo della Società e Scuola Medica Chirurgica di Bologna. The holdings statement of a record in the Harvard Univ. cat. indicates that this title was also numbered as a sequence of series from 1st ser. v.1/2-11/12=anno 1-7(1829/30-1835) to a 11th ser. beginning in 1933, as well as the sequential numbering. [Bib. Naz. Napoli cat.; GBV German Union cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.]	Boll. Soc. Med. Chir. Bologna [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 88, No. 19 (Oct. 1, 1991), p.8699 cites Ser. V 23 (1877).] Bull. d. sc. med. di Bologna [American Anthropologist, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr., 1891), p.192 cites 1890, 7. s., i.] Bull. del. Sc. mediche [Isis, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1925), p.224 cites ser. 9, 10, 1922.]
1838 - 1875[?] (1. - 8.)   E	Memorie della Società Medico-Chirurgica di Bologna The numbering statement is given by the record in the GBV German Union cat.. The record in the Cat. Ital. Periodici (ACNP) gives the numbering as 1835 - 1875. Continues C. Indexed RSLC [GBV German Union cat.; Cat. Ital. Periodici (ACNP)]	Bologna, Mem. Soc. Med. Chir. [RSLC, v.1, p.xxi]
1891 - 1921   F	Resoconto delle Adunanze della Società Medico-Chirurgica di Bologna [Cat. Ital. Periodici (ACNP)]