152 Royal Society. 
he contributed many valuable memoirs*. At a later period, about 
the year 1814, under the presidency of Sir Henry Halford, Dr. 
Yelloly, Dr. Marcet, and other influential members, conceiving 
that great advantages would result to the Society, and its perma- 
nence be better secured, by its being incorporated under a Royal 
Charter, took the proper measures for accomplishing this object. 
The necessary forms were gone through, and the grant was on the 
eve of being signed, when an unexpected opposition was suddenly 
raised by the College of Physicians, who finally prevailed on the 
Privy Council to refuse the prayer of the petitioners. Dr. Yelloly, 
however, lived to see the great change which has since taken place 
in the spirit of the times ; for, in the year 1834, his favourite scheme 
was realised, all opposition had subsided, and the Society obtained 
at once from the Crown the Charter under which it is now consti- 
tuted as the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. 
Although Dr. Yelloly diligently availed himself of the extensive 
opportunities afforded by his public appointments, and had acquired 
universal respect and esteem by the suavity of his manners and the 
kindness of his disposition, it is remarkable that he nevertheless failed 
to obtain more than a very moderate share of private practice. In 
course of time his family had become very numerous, while his pro- 
fessional income was by no means increasing in an equal ratio; and 
prudential motives prevailing over his attachment to the metropolis, 
he at length determined to quit London, and establish himself at 
Carrow Abbey, in the immediate vicinity of Norwich. He resided 
there during many years, engaged in practice: he was soon elected 
one of the Physicians of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and in- 
troduced into that establishment many useful reforms. It was du- 
ring this period that he undertook the examination of the urinary 
caiculi, of which the Hospital contained a large collection. He com- 
municated to the Royal Society the result of his labours in a paper 
which was published in the volume of our Transactions for 1829 +. 
* These contributions were the following :— 
1. A case of tumour in the brain, with remarks on the propagation 
of neryous influence. (November 29, 1808. Medico-Chirurgical Trans- 
actions, vol.i. p. 181.) 
2. History ofa case of Anesthesia. (March 11, 1812. Ibid. vol. iii. p. 90.) 
3. Observations on the vascular appearance in the human stomach, 
which is frequently mistaken for inflammation of that organ. (July 24, 
1813. Ibid. vol. iv. p.371.) 
4. Particulars of a case in which a very large calculus was removed from 
the urethra of a female without operation; with examples of analogous 
cases. (June 20, 1815. Ibid. vol. vi. p. 574.) 
5. Case of preternatural growth in the lining membrane covering the 
trunks of the vessels proceeding from the arch of the aorta. (July 8, 
1823. Ibid. vol. xii. p. 565.) 
6. Observations on the statement made by Dr. Douglass, of Cheselden’s 
improved lateral operation of lithotomy ; in a letter to Sir Astley Cooper, 
Bart., F.R.S. (April 14, 1829. Ibid. vol. xv. p. 339.) 
7. Observations on vascular appearances of mucous and serous mem- 
branes, as indicative of inflammation. (Ibid. vol. xx. p. 1.) 
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