The presidents of the Osler Club of London [1] have been:
The presidents of the Osler Club of London [1] have been:
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-1952 | Sir Zachary Cope [2] |  | |
| 1952-1954 | Alfred White Franklin (1905 – 1984) | Franklin co-founded the Osler Club of London while he was a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and later wrote a biography of Sir William Osler. [3] | |
| 1954-1956 | Vivian Green-Armytage (1882 - 1961 [4] | Green-Armytage was a gynecologist, noted for his progressive views, his service to Indian gynaecology and obstetrics, and his distinguished service in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. [5] |  |
| 1956-1958 | W. S. C. Copeman (1900 - 1970) [4] | Copeman was a rheumatologist and a medical historian, best remembered for his contributions to the study of arthritic disease. [6] |  |
| 1958-1961 | Arthur Dickson Wright (1897–1976) [7] |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-1963 | Harold Avery [8] | ||
| 1963-1965 | Charles Edward Newman | ||
| 1965-1967 | Noël Poynter (1908-1979) | Librarian then Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. [9] [10] |  |
| 1967-1969 | Jessie Dobson (1906 - 1984) | Between 1954 and 1971, Dobson was the curator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. [11] | |
| 1969-1971 | Kenneth Bryn Thomas (1915-1978) [12] |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-1972 | D. Geraint James (2 January 1922 – 20 October 2010) | James was a Welsh physician known for his work on sarcoidosis. He set up a specialist clinic for the condition and earned the nickname of the "King of Sarcoid". [13] | |
| 1972-1974 | John Cule | Cule was a Welsh general practitioner and later psychiatrist. [14] | |
| 1975-1976 | Henry R. Rollin | ||
| 1976-1978 | Neil McIntyre | ||
| 1978-1980 | P. M. Daniel | ||
| 1980-1981 | L. G. Matthews |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-1982 | Victor Cornelius Medvei | ||
| 1982-1983 | B. T. Davis | ||
| 1983-1984 | Arthur Hollman | ||
| 1984-1985 | Alex Sakula | ||
| 1985-1986 | Theodore T. Macadam | ||
| 1986-1987 | Harvey White | In 1976, White became consultant surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Subsequently, he held posts at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy and The London Clinic. He is a past president of the Medical Society of London and vice president of the British Association of Surgical Oncology and Royal Society of Medicine. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine Medal. [15] |  |
| 1987-1988 | Ruth Bowden | ||
| 1988-1989 | Dame Josephine Barnes (1912 - 1999) | Barnes was a leading obstetrician and gynaecologist and the first female president of the British Medical Association, 1979. She was also active in the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign with cancer screening. [16] |  |
| 1989-1990 | Sir Gordon Wolstenholme | ||
| 1990-1991 | Sir Harold Ellis |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-1992 | Sydney Selwyn |  | |
| 1992-1993 | John Garrett | ||
| 1993-1995 | Gordon Cook | ||
| 1995-1997 | William Dinning | ||
| 1997-1999 | Edward Howard (Ted Howard) | ||
| 1999-2001 | John W. K. Ward | Ward is a general practitioner, fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and Royal College of General Practitioners. He is a past president of the British Society for the History of Medicine [17] and was chairman at the annual meeting of the American Osler Society in Oxford in 2014. [18] |  |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-2003 | James Heron |  | |
| 2003-2005 | Raymond Hunt | ||
| 2005-2007 | David Green | [19] | |
| 2007-2009 | John Walker-Smith |  | |
| 2009-2011 | Adrian Thomas | Thomas is a retired radiologist, and visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a past president of the British Society for the History of Medicine. [20] [21] |  |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-2013 | Peter Simpson | ||
| 2013-2015 | Andrew Hilson | ||
| 2015-2017 | Richard Osborn | In 2017, Osborn retired from leadership roles in library services, in which he worked for 32 years. [22] |  |
| 2017-2019 | Sarah Peart |  | |
| 2019- | Graham Kyle | Kyle is a retired ophthalmic surgeon who, after obtaining the Diploma in the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries of London in 2014, lectures on history of medicine and medical ethics and law. [23] |  |
| 2023- | Daniel Sokol | [24] |
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope". In addition to being a physician he was a bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker. He was passionate about medical libraries and medical history, having founded the History of Medicine Society, at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He was also instrumental in founding the Medical Library Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Association of Medical Librarians along with three other people, including Margaret Charlton, the medical librarian of his alma mater, McGill University. He left his own large history of medicine library to McGill, where it became the Osler Library.
The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a medical society based at 1 Wimpole Street, London, UK. It is a registered charity, with admission through membership.
Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes,, known professionally as Dr Josephine Barnes, was a leading English obstetrician and gynaecologist. She was the first female president of the British Medical Association, 1979. Barnes was also active in the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign with cancer screening.
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Sir Vincent Zachary Cope MD MS FRCS was an English physician, surgeon, author, historian and poet perhaps best known for authoring the book Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen from 1921 until 1971. The work remains a respected and standard text of general surgery, and new editions continue being published by editors long after his death, the most recent one being the 22nd edition, published in 2010. Cope also wrote widely on the history of medicine and of public dispensaries.
The Goulstonian Lectures are an annual lecture series given on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians in London. They began in 1639. The lectures are named for Theodore Goulston, who founded them with a bequest. By his will, dated 26 April 1632, he left £200 to the College of Physicians of London to found a lectureship, to be held in each year by one of the four youngest doctors of the college. These lectures were annually delivered from 1639, and have continued for more than three centuries. Up to the end of the 19th century, the spelling Gulstonian was often used. In many cases the lectures have been published.
The Osler Club of London is a society founded in 1928 to encourage the study of the history of medicine, particularly amongst medical students, and to keep "green the memory of Sir William Osler". Membership in the club is open to medical men and women, medical students, and persons associated with the history of medicine and in allied sciences.
Frank Clifford Rose was a British neurologist, active in several journals and societies related to the specialty of neurology and its history, whose research contributed to the understanding of motor neurone disease, stroke and migraine. He developed an emergency stroke ambulance service with early neuroimaging, allowing for the detection of early reversible brain damage. In 1974, he established what would later be known as the Princess Margaret Migraine Clinic, a specialist clinic for headache at Charing Cross Hospital, where in 1965 he became their first appointed consultant neurologist.
David Geraint James FRCP was a Welsh physician who devoted his career to the treatment of sarcoidosis, setting up a specialist clinic for the condition and earning the nickname "King of Sarcoid".
Medical History is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of medicine. It was established in 1957. The journal is edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya and is published by Cambridge University Press.
The British Society for the History of Medicine (BSHM) is an umbrella organisation of History of medicine societies throughout the United Kingdom, with particular representation to the International Society for the History of Medicine. It has grown from the original four affiliated societies in 1965; the Section for the History of Medicine, The Royal Society of Medicine, London, Osler Club of London, Faculty of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, to twenty affiliated societies in 2018.
The History of Medicine Society (HoMS), at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London, was founded by Sir William Osler in 1912, and later became one of the four founder medical societies of the British Society for the History of Medicine.
Alfred White Franklin FRCP was an English neonatologist and paediatrician who edited numerous books on child abuse, founded the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, kept an interest in medical history and wrote on child matters. He was a prominent figure in the field of child abuse prevention.
Edwin Sisterton Clarke FRCP was a British neurologist and medical historian, best remembered for his role as Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, when he succeeded Noël Poynter and oversaw the transfer of the Wellcome museum to the Science museum, helped establish an intercalated BSc degree in the history of medicine for medical students and edited the journal Medical History.
Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter FLA was a British librarian and medical historian who served as director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine from 1964 to 1973.
The American Osler Society is an organisation dedicated to the history of medicine and focuses on the "life, teachings, and ethical example of Sir William Osler". It works in co-operation with the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University and consists of a group of physicians, medical historians, and other related professions united by "the common purpose of keeping alive the memory of Sir William Osler".
