• The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of...
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    Harveian Orations in chronological order. Four Harveian Orations were delivered prior to formation of the Society and from 1782 to 1831 the Oration was...
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    the Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians of London, in which he controversially spoke of how William Harvey, the man whom the Oration was...
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    diseases, public health, cancer, cardiovascular diseases; and the 2017 Harveian Oration and the Milroy Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians. In September...
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    in honour of Harvey where the President of the Society delivers the Harveian Oration, followed by a formal dinner. The venue for the Festival alternates...
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    The Harveian Society of Edinburgh was founded in April 1782 by Andrew Duncan. The Society holds an annual Festival in honour of the life and works of William...
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    2021, the Royal College of Physicians invited Van-Tam to hold the Harveian Oration, the most prestigious lecture of the learned society. On 1 December...
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    annual lecture established by William Harvey in 1656 called the Harveian Oration. The Harveian Society of Edinburgh was founded in 1782 by Dr Andrew Duncan...
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    He delivered the Gulstonian lectures at the College in 1764 and the Harveian oration in 1768. He acted as censor in 1764, 1776, and 1782. On 9 August 1784...
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    was revised and reissued in 1894 and 1907. In 1909 he delivered the Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians on the subject of Experimental Psychology...
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    commission a report called Closing the Gap in a Generation. Marmot gave the Harveian Oration in 2006. He leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA),...
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    College of Physicians in 1729 and in 1737 was chosen to present the Harveian Oration. He died on 4 November 1752 at Sunninghill, Berkshire. Dr James Monro...
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    and the Royal College of Physicians (1905–1909). He delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1914. He was created a baronet...
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    James Young Simpson (category List of Office Bearers of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and Harveian Orations)
    properties of chloroform upon animals in 1842 in a thesis which won the Harveian Society's Gold Medal that year, but had not thought to use it on humans...
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    Joseph Bell (category List of Office Bearers of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and Harveian Orations)
    peace, and a deputy lieutenant. In 1867 Bell was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1897. In 1876 he was elected...
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  • Fellow is appointed to deliver the Harveian Oration to the assembled college in memory of William Harvey. The oration seeks to honour the founders and benefactors...
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  • Coupland delivered the Goulstonian Lectures (Anaemia) in 1881 and the Harveian Oration (Observations on the Statistics in Regard to Mental Disorders and their...
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    several eponymous lectures during his medical career including the 2008 Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), where he argued that there...
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    was subsequently used in John B. Leathes' 1930 article titled "The Harveian Oration on The Birth of Chemical Biology". However, it is unclear when the...
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    and acted as Censor on three separate occasions. He delivered the Harveian Oration in 1799. In 1811, he was named as an Elect of the college. Like his...
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    delivered in the Cutlerian Theatre in Warwick Lane, in 1680 delivered the Harveian oration, and was president in 1689 and 1691. After his last year of presidency...
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    and 1877 and to the Royal College of Physicians in 1891. He gave the Harveian Oration before the College of Physicians in 1878, acted as President of the...
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  • 1805, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. He delivered the Harveian Oration in 1819. He practised medicine in Worcester from 1793 to 1799, when...
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  • He was Gulstonian lecturer in 1750, censor in 1751, and Harveian orator in 1755. His oration, which was published in 1756, summarised the opinion of the...
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  • in Hamitic languages) Harperite - Stephen Harper Harveian – William Harvey (as in Harveian Oration) Haydnesque – Joseph Haydn Hayekian – Friedrich Hayek...
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  • Margaret Street, Cavendish Square. In 1899 he was invited to give the Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians. He died at Ashford in 1904. He...
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  • Society of London' alone. His independently published works were the Harveian oration for 1880 at the Royal College of Physicians, which contains much scholarly...
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  • lunatic asylums in Essex. He was elected FRCP in 1825. He gave the Harveian Oration in 1849 and the Lumleian Lectures in 1851. On 9 April 1835 he married...
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    Nathaniel Spens (category List of Office Bearers of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and Harveian Orations)
    Aesculapian Club. On 12 April 1782 Spens was one of the founding members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1789. He purchased in 1792...
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  • 1947, a Lumleian lecture in 1956, a Croonian Lecture in 1969 and the Harveian Oration in 1980. He was awarded CBE in 1966 and knighted in 1970. He served...
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