A Medical Masonic Lodge

A MEDICAL MASONIC LODGE.

SIR, - At the recent annual meeting at Birmingham of the British Medical Association I found, in conversation with many professional brethren, a widespread concurrence with my opinion that, taking into consideration the vast number of medical men who are Masons, the formation of a medical Masonic lodge would meet with unanimous professional support. In the interests alike of the profession and of the craft, to both of which I have the honour to belong, I therefore should feel deeply gratified if you would kindly afford this scheme the powerful circulating medium of your valuable columns, with a view to ascertaining the sentiments of the profession at large upon the subject. Might I venture to supplement the same with the further suggestion that the "Aesculapian Lodge" would be a highly appropriate designation? I shall be most happy to receive the names of any professional brethren willing to join such a lodge, with a view to concerting active measures for its formation. - I am, etc.,
Jamaica Road, S.E. J. BRINDLEY JAMES, J.P.M.

Source: The British Medical Journal, August 23, 1890, Page 480