Boston Society for Medical Improvement

The Society in 1853. Standing: Charles Eliot Ware, Robert William Hooper, Le Baron Russell, and Samuel Parkman. Seated: George Amory Bethune, O. W. Holmes, Samuel Cabot III, Jonathan Mason Warren, William Edward Coale, and James Browne Gregerson.

The Boston Society for Medical Improvement was an elite society of Boston physicians, established in 1828 for "the cultivation of confidence and good feeling between members of the profession; the eliciting and imparting of information upon the different branches of medical science; and the establishment of a Museum and Library of Pathological Anatomy".[1] It held regular meetings until at least 1917.

  1. ^ Constitution and By-Laws of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, With a List of Members. Boston: John Wilson & Son. 1853. p. 5. Retrieved 21 September 2014.