Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Correspondence to Professor Spence roy-spence belfasttrust. The Ulster Medical Society was formed in with the amalgamation of the Belfast Medical Society which had been founded originally in and the Belfast Clinical and Pathological Society founded in The Belfast of those early days of the 19 th century was a parish of 20, inhabitants and in the second half of the 18 th century the Charitable Society Poor House gave shelter to the old, infirm and orphaned children.
Linked to the poor house was a small hospital 1. Against this background 19 physicians and surgeons came together in to form the Belfast Medical Society, with the first President being Dr SS Thompson. However, after discord the Society was dissolved in and reconstituted in 2. This new Society, proposed by Dr Malcolm, included town and country doctors and by the end of its first year had 96 members. Remarkably its first President, Dr Purdon born in Chichester Street, Belfast in entered Trinity College Dublin, at the young age of 13 years and in due course qualified in Medicine.
However, by discussions took place about having one single society and on April 30 th the two old societies joined to become the Ulster Medical Society. One of the remarkable changes in my 40 years of working in medicine has been imaging in diagnosis in all specialties and, of course, the therapeutic value of radiation in the treatment of our cancer patients. He was appointed to the Chair in and held the Chair for 37 years - a great technical surgeon and superb teacher.
During Sinclair's Presidential year of the Ulster Medical Society a world shattering discovery was made on the evening of Friday 8 th November by Roentgen in Wurzburg. As a child he moved to Holland and later was expelled from Utrecht school!
He later studied mechanical engineering in Zurich and was inspired to follow a career in physics in the University of Wurzburg Germany - where in he became Professor of Physics.
