Hunterian Oration

A lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The oration was founded in 1813 in the name of pioneering surgeon John Hunter. In 1853, the oration and dinner became biennial; it is held on alternate years in rotation with the Bradshaw Lecture. It is delivered by a Fellow or Member of the college on 14 Feb, Hunter's birthday.

Orators edit

19th century edit

20th century edit

  • 1901 Nottidge Charles MacNamara, The Human Skull in Relation to Brain Growth [1]
  • 1903 Sir Henry Howse [2]
  • 1905 Sir John Tweedy [3]
  • 1907 Sir Henry T. Butlin, Objects of Hunter's Life and the Manner in which he Accomplished them [4]
  • 1909 Sir Henry Morris, John Hunter as a Philosopher [5]
  • 1911 Edmund Owen, John Hunter and his Museum [6]
  • 1913 Sir Rickman Godlee, On Hunter and Lister, and on the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England [7]
  • 1915 Sir William Watson Cheyne, The Treatment of Wounds in War [8]
  • 1917 Sir George Henry Makins, The Influence Exerted by the Military Experience of John Hunter on himself and the Military Surgeon of Today [9]
  • 1919 Sir Anthony Bowlby, British Military Surgery in the time of Hunter and in the Great War [10]
  • 1921 Sir Charters J. Symonds, On Astley Cooper and Hunterian Principles [11]
  • 1923 Sir John Bland-Sutton, John Hunter, his affairs, habits and opinions [12]
  • 1925 D'Arcy Power, John Hunter as a Man
  • 1927 Berkeley Moynihan, Hunter’s ideals and Lister’s practice [13]
  • 1928 Sir Holburt Waring, The Progress of Surgery from Hunter's day to ours [14]
  • 1929 A. W. Sheen, Some Aspects of the Surgery of the Spleen [15]
  • 1930 Ernest W. Hey Groves, Hero Worship in Surgery [16]
  • 1932 Wilfred Trotter, The Commemoration of Great Men [17]
  • 1934 Cuthert Sidney Wallace, Medical Education, 1760-1934 [18]
  • 1936 Charles Herbert Fagge, John Hunter to John Hilton [19]
  • 1938 Eric Riches
  • 1939 Sampson Handley, Makers of John Hunter [20]
  • 1941 Arthur Henry Burgess, Development of Provincial Medical Education Illustrated in the Life and Work of Charles White of Manchester [21]
  • 1942 Eric Riches
  • 1943 William Francis Victor Bonney, The Forces behind Specialism in Surgery [22]
  • 1945 George Grey Turner, The Hunterian Museum, yesterday and to-morrow
  • 1949 Henry S. Souttar, John Hunter the Observer [23]
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  2. "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ 1 (2199): 438–9. February 1903. PMC 2513120. PMID 20760723. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2199.438. 
  3. "Tweedy, Sir John (1849 - 1924)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Retrieved 23 August 2010. 
  4. Butlin HT (February 1907). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ 1 (2407): 357–62. PMC 2356750. PMID 20763071. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2407.357. 
  5. Morris, Henry (1909). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ 1 (2512): 445–451. JSTOR 25280983. PMC 2318280. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2512.445. 
  6. "The Hunterian Oration ON JOHN HUNTER AND HIS MUSEUM". The Lancet 177 (4564): 417–422. 1911. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)60366-0. 
  7. "The Hunterian Oration". The Lancet 181 (4669): 507–512. 1913. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)51373-7. 
  8. "The Hunterian Oration 1915". Retrieved 30 September 2010. 
  9. Makins GH (February 1917). "Hunterian Oration 1917". BMJ 1 (2929): 213–9. PMC 2348053. PMID 20768476. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2929.213. 
  10. "The Hunterian Oration ON BRITISH MILITARY SURGERY IN THE TIME OF HUNTER AND IN THE GREAT WAR". The Lancet 193 (4982): 285–290. 1919. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)45939-8. 
  11. "The Hunterian Oration ON ASTLEY COOPER AND HUNTERIAN PRINCIPLES". The Lancet 197 (5086): 359–364. 1921. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)78484-4. 
  12. "Bland-Sutton, Sir John: Papers". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 24 August 2010. 
  13. "Moynihan, Sir Berkeley George Andrew, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865 - 1936)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Retrieved 24 August 2010. 
  14. Waring, Holburt (1928). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ 1 (3502): 245–251. JSTOR 25327910. PMC 2455325. PMID 20773695. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3502.245. 
  15. Sheen, A. W. (1929). "Some Aspects of the Surgery of the Spleen". The Lancet 213 (5506): 497–499. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)37857-1. 
  16. Groves, Ernest W. Hey (1930). "Hunterian Oration". BMJ 1 (3607): 321–326. JSTOR 25335294. PMC 2312809. PMID 20775282. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3607.321. 
  17. Trotter, W. (1932). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ 1 (3711): 317–20. PMC 2520387. PMID 20776680. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3711.317. Retrieved 21 August 2010. 
  18. Wallace, C. (1934). "Medical Education, 1760-1934". The Lancet 223 (5765): 385–389. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)03675-3. 
  19. "Fagge, Charles Herbert (1873-1939)". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 1 September 2010. 
  20. Handley, W. (18 February 1939). "Makers of John Hunter". The Lancet 233 (6025): 369–374. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)60257-X. 
  21. Burgess, Arthurh. (22 February 1941). "Development of Provincial Medical Education Illustrated in the Life and Work of Charles White of Manchester". The Lancet 237 (6130): 235–240. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)60622-0. 
  22. "Obituary". BMJ 2 (4827): 99–100. Jul 1953. PMC 2028496. PMID 13051597. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.4827.99-c. 
  23. Souttar HS (March 1949). "The Hunterian Oration for 1949". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 4 (3): 127–41. PMC 2238306. PMID 19309852.