Ernestine Henry Lecture Explained

Ernestine Henry Lecture
Established:1949
Faculty:Royal College of Physicians

The Ernestine Henry Lecture is a talk based on occupation hazards, delivered every three years. It was endowed to the Royal College of Physicians in London, in 1949 by British physician Sydney Alexander Henry, in memory of his mother Ernestine Henry, the wife of a General Practitioner in Rochdale, Lancashire.[1] [2] [3] [4] It is now delivered as part of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine/Society of Occupational Medicine annual conference "Occupational Health"

Lecturers

Years Name Lecture title Notes Image
1949Donald Hunter"Devices for the protection of the worker against injury and disease"[5] [6]
1952 "Blood changes in industrial disease" [7] [8]
1955 Kenneth M. A. Perry "Pulmonary disease associated with metallic oxides" [9]
1958 "Coronary heart disease and occupation"[10]
1961John Morrison Barnes "The mode of action of some toxic substances with special reference to the effects of prolonged exposure" [11]
1964R. C. Browne"Coal miner's nystagmus - psyche and soma"
1967 Georgiana Bonser"Factors concerned in the location of human and experimental tumours"
1970 "Hazards of deep-sea fishing" [12] [13]
1973F. S. Cooksey "Concerning the management of chronic and progressive disability"
1976E. P. G. H. Du Boulay "Radiation hazards"
1979P. C. Elms "The relative importance of cigarette smmoking in occupational lung disease"
1983K. W. Donald "Diver's diseases"
1990J. M. Harrington "The health of health care workers" [14]
1996 David Coggon "New occupational diseases" [15]
1999Robert Ian McCallum"The industrial toxicology of antimony" [16]
2011
2024Gary J MacfarlaneMusculoskeletal Health and Work

Notes and References

  1. Bonser . G. M. . Factors concerned in the location of human and experimental tumours. . British Medical Journal . 10 June 1967 . 2 . 5553 . 655–660 . 10.1136/bmj.2.5553.655 . 6067280 . 1842337 .
  2. Book: Clark . Sir George Norman . https://books.google.com/books?id=wpm8gmGt7Q4C&pg=PA1690 . A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London . Briggs . Asa . 1964 . Clarendon Press for the Royal College of Physicians . 978-0-19-925334-0 . en . Appendices. 1690.
  3. Web site: Sydney Alexander Henry RCP Museum . https://web.archive.org/web/20240401052156/https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/sydney-alexander-henry . 1 April 2024 . 1 April 2024 . history.rcplondon.ac.uk.
  4. Web site: Ernestine Henry Lectureship . https://web.archive.org/web/20240401052343/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/6103 . 1 April 2024 . 1 April 2024 . register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk.
  5. Hunter . Donald . Protection of the Worker Against Injury and Disease.—I . British Medical Journal . 25 February 1950 . 1 . 4651 . 449–454 . 10.1136/bmj.1.4651.449 . 15405906 . 2036973 .
  6. Hunter . Donald . Protection of the Worker Against Injury and Disease.--II . British Medical Journal . 4 March 1950 . 1 . 4652 . 506–512 . 10.1136/bmj.1.4652.506 . 20787763 . 2037289 .
  7. Lane . Ronald E. . Blood Changes in Industrial Disease . British Journal of Industrial Medicine . 1952 . 9 . 4 . 245–254 . 10.1136/oem.9.4.245 . 27720964 . 12987578 . 1037416 . 0007-1072.
  8. Web site: Ronald Epey Lane . history.rcplondon.ac.uk . Royal College of Physicians . 1 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240401054249/https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/ronald-epey-lane . 1 April 2024.
  9. Pulmonary disease associated with metallic oxides . The Lancet . 3 September 1955 . 266 . 6888 . 463–469 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(55)93327-4 . 13252890 . PERRY KM .
  10. Morris . J. N. . Crawford . M. D. . Coronary heart disease and physical activity of work; evidence of a national necropsy survey . British Medical Journal . 20 December 1958 . 2 . 5111 . 1485–1496 . 10.1136/bmj.2.5111.1485 . 13608027 . 0007-1447. 2027542 .
  11. Magee . P. N. . John Morrison Barnes, CBE . Nature . November 1975 . 258 . 5530 . 91 . 10.1038/258091a0 . en . 1476-4687.
  12. Web site: Richard Selwyn Francis Schilling RCP Museum . history.rcplondon.ac.uk . RCP . 1 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240401064304/https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/richard-selwyn-francis-schilling . 1 April 2024.
  13. Schilling . R. S. . Hazards of deep-sea fishing . British Journal of Industrial Medicine . January 1971 . 28 . 1 . 27–35 . 5101166 . 1009188 . 0007-1072.
  14. Harrington . J M . The health of health care workers. The Ernestine Henry lecture 1990 . Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London . 1 July 1990 . 24 . 3 . 189–195 . 2213674 . 5387640 . 0035-8819.
  15. Coggon . D. . New occupational diseases. The Ernestine Henry Lecture 1996 . Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London . 1997 . 31 . 2 . 202–205 . 9131524 . 5420903 . 0035-8819.
  16. McCallum . R. I. . The industrial toxicology of antimony. The Ernestine Henry lecture 1987 . Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London . January 1989 . 23 . 1 . 28–32 . 2926715 . 5387430 . 0035-8819.