elite medical society based boston massachusetts established purposes cultivation confidence good feeling members profession information different branches medical science establishment museum library anatomy continued hold regular meetings founding organization society established february laws established founding meeting members regular meeting held march year society grown members meetings held second fourth month originally home usually member reading paper followed discussion recent cases special interest attending physician wished opinion colleagues frequent presentations remarkable tissues organs obtained post unusual specimens found nature particular interest added cabinet society society original officers committee secretary librarian cabinet keeper offices filled year vote meeting january members admitted twice year april october practicing physicians boston eligible history year society cabinet established members collaborated combine surgery boston medical society expenses year resolving publish transactions standing committee society moved room rented annual fee published piece praising society encouraging formation similar organizations society limited membership boston medical elite number ineligible physicians younger established members profession formed competing organization society incorporated membership grown approximately attending given meeting society relocated row society held anniversary celebrations frequently including presentation original poem member holmes date increasingly rare summer asked opinion society fever probability physicians communicating patient following death physician treated infected woman subsequent infection patients treated interim interest holmes period research presented essay fever society february later published society request april issue surgery november presented society cases remarkable singular resemblance child cured swollen ankle strong number members grown society medical collections donated library absorbed membership grown reaching regular members society moved building street home purchased society total membership begun period slight decline office president instituted attempt stem decline president november society held special meeting honor recently died merged published story boston society medical improvement march issue members society proposal proposal rejected library vote meeting time society reduced meetings annual occurrence generally viewed undesirable fact begun hold joint sessions record society comes collection society expansive cabinet begun year founding included number specimens war acquired society included number chinese paintings medical cases donated cabinet estimated contain specimens beginning cabinet curator merged jackson continued work death curator tasked keeping catalog case history specimen cabinet jackson published descriptions collection descriptive catalogue later year descriptive catalogue cabinet focused solely cabinet books versions complete catalog volume specimens cabinet divided sections healthy bones bones soft parts bones heart blood vessels organs sense vocal respiratory organs canal organs canal organs female organs generation male organs generation gestation parasites locations formed society held meetings houses members set regular establishment chemist shop washington street years later relocated row chemist shop moving temple place library moved society relocated moved notable members jacob henry thomas dwight john fisher oliver holmes jackson
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