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Harveian Oration

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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 the systemic circulation. Harvey made financial provision for the college to hold an annual feast on St. Luke's Day (October 18) at which an oration would be delivered in Latin to praise the college's benefactors and to exhort the Fellows and Members of this college to search and study out the secrets of nature by way of experiment. Until 1865, the Oration was given in Latin, as Harvey had specified, and known as the Oratio anniversaria; but it was thereafter spoken in English. Many of the lectures were published in book form.

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  • 2001 David Warrell, “To search and Studdy out the secrett of Tropical Diseases by way of Experiment”
  • 2002 Cyril Chantler The Second Greatest benefit to Mankind?
  • 2003 Paul Nurse, The Great Ideas of Biology
  • 2004 Keith Peters, Exceptional Matters
  • 2005 Colin Blakemore, In Celebration of Cerebration
  • 2006 Michael Marmot, Health in an unequal world – social circumstances, biology and disease
  • 2007 Mark Brian Pepys, Science and Serendipity
  • 2008 Michael David Rawlins, De Testimonio: On the evidence for decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions
  • 2009 Leszek Borysiewicz, Prevention is better than cure
  • 2010 Sir John Bell, Redefining Disease
  • 2011 Iona Heath, Divided we fail
  • 2012 Sir Richard Peto, Halving premature death
  • 2013 Dame Kay Davies, The era of genomic medicine
  • 2014 Sir John Gurdon, Stem cells and cell replacement
  • 2015 Sir Mark Walport, Medicine, science and values
  • 2016 Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Some observations on the causes and consequences of obesity

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