title: The first fifty - a review of the South African Medical Congresses.
abstract: This historical résumé, a collation of facts from various sources which lie scattered among the pages of early medical journals of our land, has been composed in an attempt to give some continuity of substance to this particular part of South African medical history which will be celebrated by our Jubilee Congress in Johannesburg this year.
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007883:Legislation, Medical / Q000266:history; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D013019:South Africa; D006113:United Kingdom