Excerpt from The Climates and Baths of Great Britain, Being the Report of a Committee of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, 1895, Vol. 1 At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, held on May 14th, 1889, Sir Edward Sieveking in the chair, it was resolved, on the motion of Dr. Barnes, seconded by Dr. Ord, "That a scientific committee be appointed for the purpose of investigating questions of importance, in reference to the climatology and balneology of Great Britain and Ireland, and to report hereon to the Council from time to time; with power to add to their numbers." In accordance with this instruction a committee was formed, of which Dr. Ord was nominated as chairman. As first constituted, the committee consisted of - Dr. Ord, Dr. Ballard, Dr. Mitchell Bruce, Dr. Dickinson, Dr. Murrell, Dr. Frederick Taylor, Mr. Treves, Dr. Symes Thompson, Dr. Hermann Weber; of these Dr. Ballard and Mr. Treves have unfortunately been unable to serve. The following are the names of those subsequently added to the committee: - Dr. Ewart, Dr. Theodore Williams, Dr. Penrose, Dr. Norman Moore, Dr. Barnes, Dr. F. Roberts, Dr. Cheadle, Mr. Malcolm Morris, Dr. Maguire, Dr. Lazarus-Barlow, and Dr. A. E. Garrod, who was appointed to act as honorary secretary. Having received the mandate of the Council, the committee proceeded to institute inquiries of a general character. It formulated letters to be addressed to medical men practising in the more important climatic resorts and in the more important bath-places. It also drew up a form of inquiry to be addressed to medical men connected with the smaller spas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.