1948
1st meeting Spring RCS Edinburgh
Dr HJC Gibson ‘The early history of Dundee Royal Infirmary’
2nd meeting Summer RCS Edinburgh
Dr John Ritchie ‘Quarantine for plague in Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries’ ( Ed Med J 1948;55:691)
3rd meeting Autumn RFPS Glasgow
Dr J D Mackie ‘A history of Glasgow University’
Mr AL Goodall ‘The history of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow’ (Glas Med J 1949;30:89)
1949
4th meeting Spring RCP Edinburgh
Dr HP Tait ‘History of Paediatrics in Scotland’
5th meeting Summer Lanark and Hamilton
Prof SJ Cameron ‘William Smellie’
6th meeting Autumn University of Edinburgh
Dr Douglas Guthrie ‘Teaching of the History of Medicine’
1950
7th meeting Winter Glasgow Art Gallery
Dr J Douglas Guthrie ‘A brief history of British Dentistry 1685-1873’ (Br. Dent. J. 1950;80:175-181)
8th meeting Summer Royal Society, Edinburgh
Prof Shyrock ‘A history of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore’
Prof Whitfield Bell ‘Dr John Morgan’
9th meeting Autumn Royal Society, Edinburgh
Dr Douglas Guthrie ‘A medical historian in Latin America’
1951
10th meeting Winter RFPS Glasgow
Prof WJB Riddell ‘John Reissberg Wolfe (1823-1904)’ (Br J Plas Surg 1950;3:153-164)
Mr AL Goodall ‘The puzzle of Peter Lowe’
11th meeting Summer King’s College, Aberdeen
Prof John Craig ‘The History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Aberdeen’
Dr R Richards ‘Dr Francis Adams and the Corpus Hippocraticum’
12th meeting Autumn Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh
Prof E Gotfredsen ‘The reception of William Harvey’s doctrine in Denmark’ (Acta Med Scand 1952; 142: 75-86 supp 266)
1952
13th meeting Winter RFPS Glasgow
Prof TK Monro ‘Sir Thomas Browne – the skull and the portraits’
Dr ID Fergusson ‘Progress in physiology in Glasgow 1839-1939’
14th meeting Summer Dundee Royal Infirmary
Dr John Kinnear ‘Early Dundee Doctors’
Dr HJC Gibson ‘Portraits in the Boardroom of Dundee Royal Infirmary’
15th meeting Autumn RCP Edinburgh
Dr John Ritchie ‘The “De officio Magistratus” of Johannes Eurichius’
Col John Morison ‘How the problem of plague was solved’
1953
16th meeting Winter University of Glasgow
Dr FJ Hebbert ‘The life and work of Allan Burns (1781-1813)
Prof Stanley Alstead ‘The experiments of Stephen Hales, a remarkable clergyman’
17th meeting Summer University of Newcastle
Dr MHA Davison ‘Byways in the history of Anaesthesia’
Prof John Boyes ‘Aspects of dental history’
18th meeting Autumn RCS Edinburgh
Dr J Menzies Campbell ‘The Chevalier Rushini, Surgeon-Dentist to the Prince Regent’
1954
19th meeting Winter University of Glasgow
Mr RO MacKenna ‘William Hunter as book collector’
Miss AS Robertson ‘Some treasures of the Hunter coin cabinet’
20th meeting Summer RCP Edinburgh
Mr L Jolley ‘The early history of Scottish Medical literature’
Rev R Stuart Louden ‘Greyfriars Church in the history of Scotland and Edinburgh’
21st Meeting Autumn RFPSG Glasgow
Mr Tom Gibson ‘Zoografting, a curious chapter in the history of Plastic Surgery’
Dr Douglas Guthrie ‘Medico-historical activity and libraries in countries I have visited’
1955
22nd Meeting Spring Royal Society of Edinburgh
Dr A P Meiklejohn ‘The curious obscurity of Dr James Lind’
Dr T R R Todd ‘Commentary on a recent trip to Damascus, Jerusalem and Nazareth’
23rd Meeting Summer Parish Church of Newcastleton
Rev A M Craig ‘Conditions in the Parish of Castleton in the 18th Century’
Dr Haldane P Tait ‘An assessment of the medical achievements of Drs John and George Armstrong’
24th Meeting Autumn RFPSG Glasgow
Dr A M Gillespie ‘Some Peebles-shire Doctors’
1956
25th Meeting Spring Royal Society, Edinburgh
Dr Hugh W Y Taylor ‘John Goodsir, Master Anatomist 1814-67’
26th Meeting Summer Linlithgow
Dr M H A Davison ‘The Maladies of Mary Queen of Scots, and her husbands’
27th Meeting Autumn RFPSG Glasgow
‘Dr John McIntyre’s remarkable cineradiograph taken in 1897’
Mr A Goodall ‘ The Health of King James the Sixth’
1957
28th Meeting Spring RCS Edinburgh
Dr R A Krause ‘Healing as represented in postage stamps’
Dr A T Wallace ‘Sir Robert Philip 1857-1939
29th Meeting Summer Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh
Dr John Ritchie ‘James Henrysoun, chirugeon to the poore -Edinburgh’s first MOH?
Dr W S Mitchell ‘ A short review of the life of Dr George Henderson of Chirnside’
30th meeting Autumn RCP Edinburgh
Dr Douglas Guthrie ‘Holland and Scotland in medical partnership’