I must thank the Medical Staffofthe Royal Victoria Hospital forthe greathonourthattheyhavebestowed upon me today in asking me to deliver the 2004 Oration. It is interesting to note that in 1852, when DrAndrew George Malcolm was giving this oration he stated that the oration was "an old established custom". From the first Oration in 1827 until 1883 the opening address probably took the form of t...

As I stand before you today, to deliver the Dr. D.L. N. Murti Rao Oration, I am overwhelmmed by a series of emotions. Gratitude, because I realise that the Indian Psychiatric Society has honoured me by inviting me to deliver this oration this year; humility because I am aware of my inadequacy to do full justice to this great responsibility; happiness because I am getting a chance to deliver an ...

Honourable members, learned guests, members of the Indian Psychiatric Society and friends, it is a great privilege that I have been selected to deliver the prestigious Tilak Venkoba Rao Oration. I wish to thank the Indian Psychiatric Society for bestowing this award. I pay my respect to 'Tilak' worthy son of worthy parents Professors Venkoba Rao and Parvathi Devi, in whose memory this oration h...

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...

Tradition also dictates that the presentation is not a lecture. It is an oration and perhaps this is as well. In July 2005, in the Guardian, David Hare mused on the word “lecture”. He wondered when it acquired its negative connotations. He recalled a review of one of his plays: “it was more like a lecture than a play”’ lectures may be remembered for long windedness, boredom and scolding. Perhap...

This morning in beautiful city of Lucknow, I have been selected to deliver the "Tilak Venkoba Rao oration" which is indeed a land mark step in my career for a variety of reasons. I am fortunate that I am delivering this oration in the city of my alma mater where I have grown worthy of this oration. I owe a lot to my alma mater and to my revered teachers particularly Prof. B.B. Sethi who brought...

On October 18th, 1909, Dr. George H. Savage delivered the Harveian Oration on Experimental Psychology and Hypnotism. In 1846?sixty-three years ago?Dr. John Elliotson also delivered the Harveian Oration of that year on the same subject, under the name of Mesmerism. The earlier lecturer was totally disregarded. The striking point about these two lectures, so widely separated by time, is that neit...