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No.	Date	Orator	Subject
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 Egerton Yorrick 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 ....'
66. 67. 68. 69.	2004 2005 2006 2007	Prof Neil McIntyre Sir Barry Jackson Prof Michael Biddiss Dr. John Blair	'Lest we forget' 'Florence Nightingale' 'Nazi Medicine' 'Osler's unfilled slot'

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
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

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