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ORATIONS OF THE OSLER CLUB OF LONDON
1928 Sir Wilmont Herringham Osler's Love of Rare Cases
1929 Sir Archibald Garrod* The Power of Personality
1930 Harvey Cushing On His Life of Osler
1931 William Stobie* Osler & Tuberculosis
1932 RW Chapman Book Production in the Eighteenth Century
1933 Sir WL Langdon-Brown* The Psychology of Authorship
1934 Prof John Beattie* The True Record of Egerton Yorrick Davis MD
1935 Prof John Fulton* Fracastorius
1936 Lord Horder* Septic Endocarditis
1937 AG Gibson Thomas Willis, Practitioner and Scientist
1938 Archibald Malloch (No minutes exist, title not known)
1947 John Fulton and G Keynes > Medical Biography
1948 Symposium
William Stobie Osler as a Physician
Sir Arthur MacNally Osler as a Scientist
Geiffrey Keynes Osler as a Bibliographer
WR Bett Osler Legend
A White Franklin History of the Osler Club
1949 Gilbert Frankau Are We Over-Doctored?
1950 Sir Henry Soutar* Discusses own Associations with Osler
1951 SC Roberts* Reverend James Beresford (1764-1840)
1952 Sir Zachary Cope Relations Between Physicians & Surgeons Through the Ages
1953 Wilder Penfield After-Dinner Thoughts on the Learning of Languages
1954 HT Pledge Rabelais and His Background
1955 AP Cawadias* From Epidauros to Pall Mall East
1956 Ellis Waterhouse Dr. Rembrandt
1957 Charles Best+ The Discovery of Insulin
1958 Sir Ernest Gowers* Medical Jargon
1959 Sir Viscount Soulbury* The Physician and the Humanities
1960 Sir George Pickering Autobiographical Reminiscences of the Osler Club
1961 Douglas Guthrie* The Traveller Looks Both Ways
1962 WR Bett*+ The Epitaph of Adrian's Horse
1963 Sir Robert Platt+ ^ Frederick III's Last Illness
1964 Sir Charles Dodds*^ The College, Then and Now
1965 Martin Cummings*+ Books, Computers & Medicine
1966 Charles Coury* Sir William Osler and French Medicine
1967 William Bean Aphorisms and Other Things
1968 Sir Hedley Atkins We Are Not Amused
1969 CD O'Malley The Lure of Padua
1970 Fred B Rogers* The Lure of Philadelphia
1971 Sir John McMichael+ Specialism in Medicine
1972 Sir Richard Doll*+ Osler's English School
1973 Huw Wheldon A Perspective in Television
1974 Henry Miller+ Osler and Allbutt: Two Great Contemporaries
1975 Sir Ernst Gombrich+ Health and Beauty: Galen,Winckelmann and the Classical Idea
1976 Sir Roger Ormerod On the McNaughten Rules
1977 Charles Newman* The Place of Osler as a Medical Scientist
1978 Alfred White Franklin Our Early Entourage - A Few Friends (300th Meeting) and Some
Hons
1979 Sir John Butterfield Doctors, Drugs and Diet: Two Dilemmas
1980 Sir Cyril Clarke* The Unquiet Art
1981 Sir Douglas Black Linacre, Harvey, Osler; Three Physicians He Admired with
Thoughts on the Media
1982 Sir Peter Tizard Osler's Contribution to the Study of Cerebral Palsy in Children
1983 Alastair Robb-Smith The Mysterious Affair at Kelloe
1984 Sir Raymond Hoffenberg Osler and the Thyroid
1985 Sir Christopher Booth Osler - Medical Research & Northwick Park
1986 Sir Gordon Wolstenholme* "The Besetting Sin of the Young Physician…."
1987 Sir David Innes Williams The Evolution of Professional Discipline
1988 Sir Geoffrey Slaney The Quest for Quality
1989 Dame Barbara Clayton Studies of Inherited Metabolic Disorders and Their Contribution to
Clinical Medicine
1990 Lord Asa Briggs* Doctors and Historians
1991 John Marks The Politics of State Health Care - An Historical Analysis
1992 Prof D Geraint James A Double Centary Celebration
1993 No Oration Given
1994 Prof Bill Bynum Osler's Moon: Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
1995 Sir James Watt Music of Hippocrates
1996 Richard Harries The Church and Healing Lord Bishop of Oxford
1997 Dr John Cule On Heroes and Hero Worship
1998 Prof Harold Ellis Some of My Surgical Heroes
1999 Lord Walton of Detchant 'An Osler Ode'
2000 Sir David Weatherall 'From Osler to the Barefoot Doctor: The Role of Science in the
Future of Medical Education'
The above adapted from the Osler Club of London web site <www.osler.org.uk/HTML/Orations.htm>