396 =Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. | November, 1906. 
Practical Medicine and Surgery,” the first number of which ap- 
peared in October 1853. Part of the plan of this journal was to 
publish yearly “ An original report upon one of the more impor- 
ta i 
report of thedisease.” Dysentery was the first subject selected 
for treatment in this novel manner, but although the editors ap- 
Tue Inptan Mepican Gazerre, 1866. 
The premier Indian medical journal of the present day needs 
but little notice here, so it will be sufficient to recall its birth in 
1866 in the form which is happily still familiar to us all. That it 
has amply fulfilled the hopes of its founders is evident from its 
continued and increasing success under its present able Editor. 
May its weight never grow less ! 
Recent Carcurra Mepican Socievies. 
_ Tt only remains for me to briefly recall the medical societies 
which have existed in Calcutta during recent ears, the most 
citi Branch of the British Medical Association. Dr. D. B. Smith 
ha the first president of the Caleutta Medical Society, while the 
ecretaries were Robert Harvey and Kenneth McLeod, the last 
