I suspect you know but the Minute Book of the Glasgow Medical Society has no record of his presentation on 1st April 1837 though there is no doubt that a talk he gave somewhere to spark off the London Medical Gazette correspondence. The stats of the Lock hospital over the period are here. I Patterson A Statistics of Glasgow Lock Hospital since its foundation in 1805 with remarks on the Contagious Diseases Acts and Syphilis. Glasgow Medical Journal 1882 p1-18. I have looked at the Student essay book (clerks were expected to write an essay about their attachment) and can find nothing. He was attached to the hospital around November 1836
Yes, I combed through the Glasgow Medical Society's minute book and found no mention of McCune Smith's paper, nor did I find any mention of him at all in their records. (I cover this in my biography of McCune Smith, now going through the editorial process with my publisher.) Since neither Hannay nor anyone else contradicted McCune Smith's statement that he read a paper before an organization of that name, I'm guessing that there either an informal meeting of some of its members to whom he read that paper, or perhaps there was an auxiliary society for medical students. Or, McCune Smith could have been referring to a separate society for medical students founded in 1802, the Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society, which may have been commonly referred to as the Glasgow Medical Society. (See James Walker Downie, The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, 1814-1907 (Glasgow: Alex. Macdougall, 1908), p. 2) I'll continue to dig and see what I can find.
I suspect you know but the Minute Book of the Glasgow Medical Society has no record of his presentation on 1st April 1837 though there is no doubt that a talk he gave somewhere to spark off the London Medical Gazette correspondence. The stats of the Lock hospital over the period are here. I Patterson A Statistics of Glasgow Lock Hospital since its foundation in 1805 with remarks on the Contagious Diseases Acts and Syphilis. Glasgow Medical Journal 1882 p1-18. I have looked at the Student essay book (clerks were expected to write an essay about their attachment) and can find nothing. He was attached to the hospital around November 1836
Thanks for your helpful comments, Ian!
Yes, I combed through the Glasgow Medical Society's minute book and found no mention of McCune Smith's paper, nor did I find any mention of him at all in their records. (I cover this in my biography of McCune Smith, now going through the editorial process with my publisher.) Since neither Hannay nor anyone else contradicted McCune Smith's statement that he read a paper before an organization of that name, I'm guessing that there either an informal meeting of some of its members to whom he read that paper, or perhaps there was an auxiliary society for medical students. Or, McCune Smith could have been referring to a separate society for medical students founded in 1802, the Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society, which may have been commonly referred to as the Glasgow Medical Society. (See James Walker Downie, The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, 1814-1907 (Glasgow: Alex. Macdougall, 1908), p. 2) I'll continue to dig and see what I can find.