Osler Orations
An asterisk ( * ) indicates that there is a copy in the Library.
A Plus sign ( + ) indicates that there is a recording in the Library.
| No. | Date | Orator | Subject |
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| 1. | 1928 | Sir Wilmot Herringham | Spoke of Osler’s love of rare cases |
| 2. | 1929 | *Sir Archibald Garrod | The Power of Personality |
| 3. | 1930 | Harvey Cushing | On his life of Osler |
| 4. | 1931 | *William Stobie | Osler & Tuberculosis |
| 5. | 1932 | R W Chapman | Book Production in the eighteenth century |
| 6. | 1933 |
* Sir W L Langdon-Brown | The Psychology of authorship |
| 7. | 1934 |
* Prof John Beattie | The True Record of EgertonYorrick Davis MD |
| 8. | 1935 |
* Prof John Fulton | Fracastorius |
| 9. | 1936 | * Lord Horder | Septic endocarditis |
| 10. | 1937 | A G Gibson | Thomas Willis, practitioner & scientist |
| 11. | 1938 | Archibald Malloch | Old Oslerian platitudes |
| 12. | 1949 | Gilbert Frankau | Are we over-doctored? |
| 13. | 1950 | *Sir Henry Souttar | Discusses own associations with Osler |
| 14. | 1951 | *S C Roberts | Rev James Beresford (1764 – 1840) |
| 15. | 1952 | Sir Zachary Cope | Relations between physicians & surgeons through the ages |
| 16. | 1953 | Wilder Penfield | After-dinner thoughts on the learning of languages |
| 17. | 1954 | H T Pledge | Rabelais and his background |
| 18. | 1955 | *A P Cawadias | From Epidauros to Pall Mall East |
| 19. | 1956 | Ellis Waterhouse | Dr Rembrandt |
| 20. | 1957 | + Charles Best | The Discovery of Insulin |
| 21. | 1958 |
*Sir Ernest Gowers | Medical Jargon |
| 22. | 1959 |
*Viscount Soulbury | The Physician and the Humanities |
| 23. | 1960 | Sir George Pickering | Autobiographical reminiscences of the Osler Club |
| 24. | 1961 | *Douglas Guthrie | The Traveller looks both ways |
| 25. | 1962 | *+ W R Bett | The Epitaph of Adrian’s Horse |
| 26. | 1963 | + Sir Robert Platt | Frederick III’s last illness (copy in RCP Library) |
| 27. | 1964 | *Sir Charles Dodds | The College, then and now (first draft in RCP Library) |
| 28. | 1965 |
*+ Martin Cummings | Books, Computers & Medicine |
| 29. | 1966 | *Charles Coury | Sir William Osler & French Medicine |
| 30. | 1967 | William Bean | Aphorisms and Other Things |
| 31. | 1968 | Sir Hedley Atkins | We are not amused |
| 32. | 1969 | C D O’Malley | The Lure of Padua |
| 33. | 1970 | *Fred B Rogers | The Lure of Philadelphia |
| 34. | 1971 | + Sir John McMichael | Specialism in medicine |
| 35. | 1972 | *+Sir Richard Doll | Osler’s English School |
| 36. | 1973 | Huw Wheldon | A Perspective in television |
| 37. | 1974 | + Henry Miller | Osler & Allbutt: two great contemporaries |
| 38. | 1975 | + Sir Ernst Gombrich | Health & Beauty: Galen,Winckelmann and the Classical Idea |
| 39. | 1976 | Sir Roger Ormerod | On the McNaughten Rules. |
| 40. | 1977 | *Charles Newman | The Place of Osler as a medical scientist |
| 41. | 1978 | Alfred White Franklin | Our early entourage – a few friends
(300th Meeting) and some Hons. |
| 42. | 1979 | Sir John Butterfield | Doctors, Drugs and Diet: two dilemmas |
| 43. | 1080 | *Sir Cyril Clarke |
The Unquiet Art |
| 44. | 1981 | Sir Douglas Black | Linacre, Harvey, Osler; three physicians he admired with thoughts on the media |
| 45. | 1982 | Sir Peter Tizard | Osler’s contribution to the study of cerebral palsy in children |
| 46. | 1983 | Alastair Robb-Smith | The Mysterious Affair at Kelloe |
| 47. | 1984 | Sir Raymond Hoffenberg | Osler and the Thyroid |
| 48. | 1985 | Sir Christopher Booth | Osler – Medical Research & Northwick Park |
| 49. | 1986 | *Sir Gordon Wolstenholme | “The Besetting Sin of the Young Physician……” |
| 50. | 1987 | Sir David Innes Williams | The evolution of professional discipline |
| 51. | 1988 | Sir Geoffrey Slaney | The Quest for Quality |
| 52. | 1989 | Dame Barbara Clayton | Studies of inherited metabolic disorders and their contribution to clinical medicine |
| 53. | 1990 | *Lord Asa Briggs | Doctors & Historians |
| 54. | 1991 | John Marks | The Politics of State Health Care – an historical analysis |
| 55. | 1992 | Prof D Geraint James | A Double Centenary Celebration |
| 56. | 1994 | Prof Bill Bynum | Osler’s Moon : Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt |
| 57. | 1995 | Sir James Watt | Music of Hippocrates |
| 58. | 1996 | Richard Harries Lord Bishop of Oxford | The Church and Healing |
| 59. | 1997 | Dr John Cule | On Heroes and Hero Worship |
| 60. | 1998 | Prof Harold Ellis | Some of My Surgical Heroes |
| 61. | 1999 | Lord Walton of Detchant | ‘An Osler Ode’ |
| 62. | 2000 | Sir David Weatherall | ‘From Osler to the barefoot doctor: the role of science in the future of medical education’ |
| 63. | 2001 | Dr Charles Bryan | ‘Lewellys Franklin Barker. Osler’s American successor” |
| 64. | 2002 | Prof T J Murray | “Was the Count of Monte Cristo a Physician?” Observations of the medical references in the writings of Alexandre Dumas Pere. |
| 65. | 2003 | Prof Sir Graeme Catto | ‘The shape of things to come ….’ |
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2004
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 |
Prof Neil McIntyre
Sir Barry Jackson Prof Michael Biddiss Dr. John Blair Dr. Ian Gilmore PRCP Prof John Pearn |
‘Lest we forget’
‘Florence Nightingale’ ‘Nazi Medicine’ ‘Osler’s unfilled slot’ ‘The New Physician’ ‘Differential Diagnosis’ |
NOTES
The 11th Oration has no title; apart from a list of those present, no minutes have been written.
Annual dinners were held in 1947, 1948 and 1993, but there were no Orators as such. Speakers, however, for the first two dates were as follows :-
| 1947 | John Fulton & Geoffrey Keynes – each spoke on Medical biography | |||
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| 1948 | Symposium: | William Stobie | - | Osler as a physician |
| Sir Arthur MacNally | - | Osler as a scientist | ||
| Geoffrey Keynes | - | Osler as a bibliographer | ||
| W R Bett | - | Osler Legend | ||
| A White Franklin | - | History of the Osler Club | ||