Lord Moran and James Boswell: the two diarists compared and contrasted.
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INTRODUCTION I Am greatly honoured to have been invited to deliver the ninth Osler Lecture to the Faculty of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy. Sir William Osler was the great exemplar for the generation of physicians which preceded mine. The dominating interests in his life were medicine, English literature and medical history, and since my talk concerns, in varying degree, some aspects of these three subjects, I hope it may not be considered unsuitable for an Osler lecture. I will begin with two recorded scraps of conversation. On 30 March 1792, Mrs. Piozzi said to Bishop Percy, talking ofJames Boswell, 'Let us be careful of our health, my Lord, or he will write our lives too'. On 3 August 1959, Harold Macmillan, then Prime Minister, asked at lunch at his home, Birch Grove, 'Who will be Winston's Boswell?' Lord Moran, who was a guest, did not declare himself but he later wrote down his account of the conversation. Brendan Bracken had much earlier urged this Boswellian duty on Lord Moran who, as we now know, kept a diary from the day when he became Churchill's doctor on 24 May 1940. This diary was to provide the building stones for his book Winston Churchill. The Struggle for Survival. Moran's account of the first consultation at Admiralty House reveals something of the nature of his patient and of his own quality as an observer:
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1969