The Harveian Oration 1973

Harveian Oration

William Harvey and the Harveian Trust William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1, 1578. He was educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, Gonville, and Caius College, Cambridge, and the University of Padua, graduating as doctor of arts and medicine in 1602. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607 and was appointed to the Lumleian lectureship in 1615. In the cycles of...

Harveian Oration Health in an unequal world

William Harvey and the Harveian Trust William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1, 1578. He was educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, Gonville, and Caius College, Cambridge, and the University of Padua, graduating as doctor of arts and medicine in 1602. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607 and was appointed to the Lumleian lectureship in 1615. In the cycles of...

The Harveian Oration Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians.

Harveian Oration 2014: Stem cells and cell replacement prospects .

The idea of replacing body parts has attracted interest for a long time. In the third century, legend holds that St Cosmas and St Damian succeeded in grafting a leg from a recently deceased Ethiopian to replace onto the body of a patient. Unfortunately, this has not proved to be repeatable – the fact that the laboratory assistants in many representations of this event have wings indicating that...

"The Campbell heritage lives on". The Robert Campbell oration delivered on 8th May, 1973.

ROBERT CAMPBELL, if living today, would be well over one hundred years of age. He died in 1920 at the early age of 54 years, and in his 25 years of active work he built up not only for himself but also for this medical school a lasting surgical reputation. It would not be an overstatement if we said that he revolutionized surgery in Ulster The title of tonight's lecture some fifty years after h...