The Westminster Medical Society was a London medical discussion group in existence from 1809 to 1850–1, when it merged into the Medical Society of London.
Its founders were Benjamin Brodie and Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Baronet.
[1] Initially the Society absorbed the membership of the dormant Lyceum Medicum Londinense, founded in 1785 but inactive from about 1805.
[2] Its Presidents included Augustus Bozzi Granville in 1829, when the profile of the Society was high during discussion of gestation period in the Gardner peerage case,[3][4] in 1846 Henry Hancock,[5] and William Dingle Chowne who worked for the union with the Medical Society of London.
[6] John Snow of Westminster Hospital attributed the development of his career to his association with the Society.