The Lumleian Lectures are a series of annual lectures started in 1582 by the

Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...

and currently run by the Lumleian Trust. The name commemorates John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, 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

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, but now on general medicine.

William Harvey William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and proper ...

did not announce his work on the

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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. ebooks

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 Julian Peto is an English statistician and cancer epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was Cancer Research UK Chair of Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research from 1983 until 2010. From 1974 to 198 ...

, ''Asbestos and the mesothelioma epidemic'' *2008 Jeremy J. Farrar, ''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 David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit w ...

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