The Lumleian Lectures are a series of annual lectures started in 1582 by the
Royal College of Physicians and currently run by the Lumleian Trust. The name commemorates
John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley
John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, KB (c. 1533 – 1609) was an English aristocrat, who is remembered as one of the greatest collectors of art and books of his age.
Early life
John Lumley, born about 1533, was the grandson and heir of John, ...
, who with
Richard Caldwell
Richard Caldwell or Caldwall M.D.FRCP(1505?–1584) was an English physician, known for his part in founding the Lumleian Lectures, an annual series of anatomical demonstrations, delivered by the Royal College of Physicians, College of Physician ...
of the College endowed the lectures, initially confined to
surgery
Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...
, but now on
general medicine.
William Harvey did not announce his work on the
circulation of the blood in the Lumleian Lecture for 1616 although he had some partial notes on the heart and blood which led to the discovery of the circulation ten years later. By that time ambitious plans for a full anatomy course based on weekly lectures had been scaled back to a lecture three times a year.
Initially the appointment of the Lumleian lecturer was for life, later reduced to five years, and since 1825 made annually, although for some years it was awarded for two years in succession.
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Lecturers (incomplete list)
1811–1900
1901-2000
2001 onwards
*2003 Rodney Phillips, ''Immunology as taught by Darwin''
*2004 Michael C. Sheppard, ''Growth Hormone – from Molecule to Mortality''
*2005 Steve Bloom, ''Gut feeling – the secret of satiety''
*2006 Elwyn Elias, ''Co-ordinated defence and the liver''
*2007
Julian Peto, ''Asbestos and the mesothelioma epidemic''
*2008
Jeremy J. Farrar
Sir Jeremy James Farrar (born 1 September 1961) is a British medical researcher who has served as director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013 and will serve as chief scientist at the World Health Organization in 2023. He was previously a professo ...
, ''Globalisation and infectious diseases; a threat and an opportunity for collaborative clinical science''
*2011 Tom Babor, ''The art of getting science into practice in alcohol treatment – a quoi bon?''
*2012 Edward R Marcantonio, ''Intervention studies for delirium: the State of the Science''
*2013
David Nutt
Notes
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