The Pathological Society of London was founded in 1846 for the "cultivation and promotion of Pathology

Pathology

Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....

 by the exhibition and description of specimens, drawings, microscopic preparations, casts or models of morbid parts." Its first meeting was held in February 1847. In 1907 it was merged with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London and other societies to become the Royal Society of Medicine

Royal Society of Medicine

The Royal Society of Medicine is a British charitable organisation whose main purpose is as a provider of medical education, running over 350 meetings and conferences each year.- History and overview :...

. the society published 58 volumes of the Transactions of the Pathological Society of London. The society's first president was C. J. D. Williams. Early members included Richard Bright

Richard Bright (physician)

Richard Bright was an English physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease.He was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the third son of Sarah and Richard Bright Sr., a wealthy merchant and banker. Bright Sr. shared his interest in science with his son,encouraging him to consider it...

, Golding Bird

Golding Bird

Golding Bird was a British medical doctor and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Bird became a great authority on kidney diseases and published a comprehensive paper on urinary deposits...

, William Gull, William Jenner

Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet

thumb|right|"Physic"Jenner as caricatured by Spy in [[Vanity Fair |Vanity Fair]], April 1873Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet was a significant English physician primarily known for having discovered the distinction between typhus and typhoid.-Biography:Jenner was born at Chatham on 30 January...

, Henry Bence Jones

Henry Bence Jones

Henry Bence Jones was an English physician and chemist.- Biography :He was born at Thorington Hall, Yoxley, Suffolk, the son of Lieutenant Colonel William Jones, an officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, and Matilda Bence...

 and Richard Quain

Richard Quain

Sir Richard Quain, 1st Baronet , was an Irish physician.He was born at Mallow-on-the-Blackwater, County Cork, and died in Harley Street, London....

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