Fitzpatrick Lecture

The Fitzpatrick Lecture is given annually at the Royal College of Physicians on a subject related to history of medicine.[1] The lecturer, who must be a fellow of the College, is selected by the president and may be chosen to speak for two years successively. The lectures are supported by funds from the Fitzpatrick Trust which was established in 1901 by Agnes Letitia Fitzpatrick[2] with a £2,000 donation in memory of her physician husband Thomas Fitzpatrick.[3][4][5] Agnes was influenced by her husband’s close friend, Sir Norman Moore, who persuaded her to choose ‘’history of medicine’’ as a subject. Subsequently, Moore was credited with its idea and implementation.[6]

Fitzpatrick Lecture

Founder(s)	Thomas Fitzpatrick (London physician)
Established	1901
Faculty	Royal College of Physicians

The first two Fitzpatrick lectures were given by Joseph Frank Payne,[6] whose request instigated history of medicine lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine and with whose support Sir William Osler established the History of Medicine Section.[7] He was succeeded by Sir Norman Moore, Leonard Guthrie and Clifford Allbutt and Raymond Crawfurd.[8]

Lecturers

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1903-1920

Years	Name	Lecture title	Comments	Image
1903-1904	Joseph Frank Payne	The Medicine of Anglo-Saxon Times.[9]	Paid tribute to Thomas Fitzpatrick prior to first lecture, stating that Norman Moore, an intimate friend of Fitzpatrick, should have given the first lecture.[6]
1905-1906	Sir Norman Moore	The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles.[10]	Moore spoke on Medical Study in London during the Middle Ages and Education of physicians in London in the 17th century.[10]
1907-1908	Leonard Guthrie	Contributions to the Study of Precocity in Children.[11] The History of Neurology.	After Guthrie's death, his work was privately printed in 1921, by his nephew, Eric G. Millar.[12]
1909-1910	Clifford Allbutt	Greek Medicine in Rome.[13][14]	Allbutt dedicated the published lectures to Sir Norman Moore, president of the RCP.[14]
1911-1912	Raymond Crawfurd	*The King's Evil.[8] Plague and Pestilence in Art and Literature[8]	Crawfurd further expanded these topics to produce books on the subjects.[15]
1913-1914	Charles Arthur Mercier	*Astrology in Medicine.[16] *Leper houses and mediaeval hospitals.[17]
1915-1916	William Halse Rivers	Medicine, Magic and Religion.[18]
1917-1918	Arnold Chaplin	Medicine in England during the reign of George III.[19]
1919-1920	Edward Granville Browne	Arabian medicine.[20]

1921-1940

Years	Name	Lecture title	Comments	Image
1921	Robert Oswald Moon	Lectured on Hippocrates and his successors and interested in classics. He also wrote book on The Relation of Medicine to Philosophy.[21]
1923-1924	Charles Singer	* History of Medicine The Evolution of Anatomy: a Short History of Anatomical and Physiological Discovery to Harvey[22]
1927	Herbert R. Spencer	The FitzPatrick Lectures on the History of British Midwifery (1650-1800).[23]
1935-1936	John Davy Rolleston	He demonstrated how current medical problems could be understood through studying the past,[24] in The history of the acute exanthemata.[25]
1937-1938	Henry Harold Scott	A History of Tropical Medicine.[26]

1941-1960

Years	Name	Lecture title	Comments
1948-1949	W.H Wynn	The Pestilences of War.[1]
1950-1952	W. Brockbank	The History of Some Therapeutic Procedures.[1]
1952-1953	M. Davidson	Medicine in Oxford, a Historical Romance.[1]
1954-1955	C. E. Newman	The Evolution of Medical Education in the Nineteenth Century.[1]	Newman described the development of professional solidarity and societies of physicians and apothecaries, demonstrating similarities between apothecaries and attorneys.[27]
1956-1957	C F T East	Some Aspects of the History of Cardiology.[1]
1958-1959	W. S. C. Copeman	Medical Practice in the Tudor Period.[1]
1960-1961	K D Keele	Evolution of Clinical Methods in Medicine.[1]	Published in a book reviewed by Lloyd G. Stevenson.[28]

1961-1980

Years	Name	Lecture title	Comments
1960-1961	K. D. Keele	Evolution of Clinical Methods in Medicine[1]
1962-1963	A H T Robb-Smith	The Oxford Medical School and its Graduates.[1]
1964-1965	R R Trail	The History of Popular Medicine in England: up to the 17th century.[1]
1966	Geoffrey Keynes	John Woodall, Surgeon, 1556-1643. His place in medical history.[1]
1967	P E Thompson Hancock.[1]
1968	C. E. Newman	The History of the College Library.[1]
1969-1970	Major General A. N. T. Mences	The Influence of War on Medicine The Influence of Medicine on War.[1]
1971-1972	Edgar Ashworth Underwood	The Evolution of Haematology: The History of the Formed Elements of the Blood. The Evolution of Haematology: The History of some Diseases of the Blood.[1]
1973	Major General R. J. G. Morrison	Dr Messenger Monsey, 1693-1788.[1]
1975	W. C. Gibson	A Canadian Trio of Internalists – Banting, Bethune and Chisholm.[1]
1976	Gweneth Whitteridge	Some Italian Precursors of the London College of Physicians.[1]
1977	E. S. Clarke	The Neutral Circulation:the role of analogy in medicine.[1]
1979	C. C. Boothe	Clinical Science in the age of Reason.[1]
1980	A. J. Robertson	Dinner with Laennec.[1]	A. J. Robertson was the second medical editor of journal Thorax. His Fitzpatrick lecture was based on Läennec, and the physicians who contributed to the confusion about rales and rhonchi.[29]

1981-2000

Years	Name	Lecture title	Comments
1981	P A J Ball	Plants, their Predators and the Physician.[1]
1982	A Hollman	Thomas Lewis - Physiologist, Cardiologist and Clinical Scientist.[1]
1983	R. M. Kark	Richard Bright MD FRS DCL (1789-1859).
1984	Gordon Wolstenholme	Governments may damage your health.[30]
1986	John Malins	Provincial physicians in England 1700-1900
1987	Alex Sakula	A history of asthma.[31]
1988	A. Goldberg	Towards European medicine: an historical perspective.[32]
1989	P. Richards	Leprosy: myth, melodrama and mediaevalism.[33]
1993	A S Mason	Hans Sloane and his friends.[34]
1994	J H Baron	Art in hospitals.[35]	Given whilst Baron was a RCP councillor.[36]
1995	D A Pyke	The great insanity: Hitler and the destruction of German science.[37]
1996	Tattersall R	Frederick Pavy (1829-1911)-the last of the physician chemists.[38]

2001 onwards

Years	Name	Lecture title	Comments
2015	T Peters	King George III and the porphyria myth - causes, consequences and re-evaluation of his mental illness with computer diagnostics.[39]
2016	David Eedy	Churchill's medical men.[40]
2017	Professor Gareth Williams	Edward Jenner and John Hunter: the apprentice and his sorcerer.[41]
2018	Nick Levell	Daniel Turner Vs Thomas Dover - a story of rivals, slaves and pirates, dermatology and physicians[3]

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16. Mercier, Charles Arthur (1914). Astrology in medicine : the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians on November 6 and 11, 1913 : with addendum on saints and signs. University of California Libraries. London : Macmillan and Co.
17. Mercier, Charles Arthur (1915). Leper houses and mediaeval hospitals: being the FitzPatrick lectures, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, London, 5th and 10th November, 1914. FitzPatrick lectures ;1914. London: H.K. Lewis.
18. PERRY, W. J. (October 1924). "Medicine, Magic and Religion: the FitzPatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London 1915 and 1916". Nature. 114 (2868): 563–564. doi:10.1038/114563a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
19. Chaplin, Arnold (1919). Medicine in England during the reign of George III. The Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians 1917-1918;. University of California Libraries. London : Published by the Author.
20. Browne, Edward Granville; Fitz-Patrick lectures, (1919 (1921). Arabian medicine : being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Yale University. Cambridge : The University Press.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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23. Spencer, H. R. (12 November 1927). "The FitzPatrick Lectures on the History of British Midwifery (1650-1800)". British Medical Journal. 2 (3488): 853–856. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3488.853. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2525138. PMID 20773500.
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25. Rolleston, J. D. (John Davy) (1937). The history of the acute exanthemata : the Fitzpatrick lectures for 1935 & 1936. Wellcome Library. London : W. Heinemann.
26. "A History of Tropical Medicine Based on the Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London 1937-38". Journal of the American Medical Association. 114 (16): 1585. 20 April 1940. doi:10.1001/jama.1940.02810160087038. hdl:2027/wu.89043229947. ISSN 0002-9955.
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30. Wolstenholme, G. (January 1985). "Governments may damage your health. The FitzPatrick Lecture 1984". Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 19 (1): 17–22. ISSN 0035-8819. PMC 5370982. PMID 3882955.
31. Sakula, A. (January 1988). "A history of asthma. The FitzPatrick lecture 1987". Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 22 (1): 36–44. ISSN 0035-8819. PMC 5379292. PMID 3276885.
32. Goldberg, A. (October 1989). "Towards European medicine: an historical perspective. The FitzPatrick lecture 1988". Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 23 (4): 277–286. ISSN 0035-8819. PMC 5387602. PMID 2685270.
33. Richards, P. (January 1990). "Leprosy: myth, melodrama and mediaevalism. The FitzPatrick lecture 1989". Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 24 (1): 55–62. ISSN 0035-8819. PMC 5387456. PMID 2407839.
34. Mason, A. S. (October 1993). "Hans Sloane and his friends. The FitzPatrick Lecture 1993". Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 27 (4): 450–455. ISSN 0035-8819. PMC 5396686. PMID 8289170.
35. Baron, J. H. (March 1995). "Art in hospitals. The Fitzpatrick Lecture 1994". Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 29 (2): 131–144. ISSN 0035-8819. PMC 5401301. PMID 7595886.
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41. "FitzPatrick lecture - Edward Jenner and John Hunter: the apprentice and his sorcerer". RCP London. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2018.