FOREWORD

It is a pleasure to write a foreword to this Supplement of the Irish Journal of Medical Science--a new venture which will I hope be only the first in a long series of numbers publishing the Proceedings of the Annual Confer- ences of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. It is appropriate that this association between the College and the Academy should recur, for just over 150 years ago the College began such discussions whose pro-

ceedings were published from 1832 onwards in the Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science, the direct ancestor of the Irish Journal of

Medical Science.

The Conference now recorded in these pages was a remarkable success. This was due chiefly to the energy, knowledge and enthusiasm of Dr. Donald Weir. His choice of subjects was excellent. The range of speakers from North and South illustrated the special status of the Irish College which unlike its sister Colleges in Great Britain is the College not of a single city

but of the whole of Ireland.

DAVID MITCHELL, M.D., F.R.C.P.I.,

President, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland.