The Huxley Lecture Explained

The Huxley Lecture was a memorial lecture instituted by Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1896[1] to honour Thomas Henry Huxley[2] and is delivered biennially. The Huxley Lecture was one of two memorial lectures created to honour Huxley. The other lecture series is known as The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture and was created in 1900 by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.[3]

Recipients

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1896 "Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery"5 October 1896[4]
1898 "The Huxley Lecture of Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery"3 October 1898[5]
1900"The Huxley Lecture"2 October 1900[6]
1902"On recent studies of immunity with special reference to their bearing on pathology"1 October 1902[7]
1904"The Huxley Lecture on the Function of the Caecum and Appendix"3 October 1904[8]
1906"Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery"6 October 1906[9]
1908"The Huxley Lecture on Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on. Medicine and Surgery"3 October 1908[10]
1910"Hereditary Aspects Of Nervous And Mental Diseases" 8 October 1910[11]
1912"On some problems in infection and its control"31 October 1912[12]
1914"Malaria and the transmission of diseases"2 November 1914[13]
1920"The Huxley Lecture on Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on. Medicine and Surgery"24 November 1920[14]
1927"The Huxley lecture on Diathesis"24 November 1927[15]
1929"The Huxley Lecture on the nature of disease"12 February 1929[16]
1935"The Huxley Lecture on clinical science within the university"14 March 1935[17]
1937"Huxley, the Brain and the Mind"18 November 1937[18]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Clio Medica. Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae. Vol. 19 . 29 January 2020 . BRILL . 978-90-04-41828-8 . 237 . en. 19.
  2. The Huxley Lecture—Recent Advances in Science and their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery: 1I . Nature . October 1896 . 54 . 1407 . 580–583 . 10.1038/054580a0. 1896Natur..54..580. . 4051828 . free .
  3. Web site: Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture . Honours . Royal Anthropological Institute . 4 January 2023 . 18 August 2009.
  4. The Huxley Lecture . British Journal of Dental Science and Prosthetics . 1 July 1896 . 39 . 683 . 932 . London.
  5. Virchow . R. . The Huxley Lecture on Recent Advances in Science and their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery: Delivered at the opening of the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on October 3rd . BMJ . 8 October 1898 . 2 . 1971 . 1021–1028 . 10.1136/bmj.2.1971.1021. 20758088 . 2434440 .
  6. The Huxley Lecture . BMJ . 6 October 1900 . 2 . 2075 . 969–977 . 10.1136/bmj.2.2075.969. Lister . 20759189 . 2463910 .
  7. Welch . W. H. . The Huxley Lecture on Recent Studies of Immunity, with Special Reference to their Bearing on Pathology: Delivered at the Opening of the Winter Session of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on October 1st, 1902 . BMJ . 11 October 1902 . 2 . 2180 . 1105–1114 . 10.1136/bmj.2.2180.1105. 20760475 . 2401880 .
  8. Macewen . W. . The Huxley Lecture on the Function of the Caecum and Appendix: Delivered at the Opening of the Winter Session of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on October 3rd, 1904 . BMJ . 8 October 1904 . 2 . 2284 . 873–878 . 10.1136/bmj.2.2284.873. 20761727 . 2355686 .
  9. The Huxley Lecture: Professor Pawlow's Address at Charing Cross Hospital. . The Hospital . 6 October 1906 . 41 . 1046 . 9–10 . 29812138. 5194242 .
  10. THE HUXLEY LECTURE: Delivered at Charing Cross Hospital. . British Medical Journal . 3 October 1908 . 2 . 2492 . 1023–4 . 10.1136/bmj.2.2492.1023 . 20764066. 2437559 .
  11. Mott . FW . The Huxley Lecture On Hereditary Aspects Of Nervous And Mental Diseases . British Medical Journal . 8 October 1910 . 2 . 2597 . 1013–1020 . 10.1136/bmj.2.2597.1013 . 25292413 . 20765287 . 2336116 .
  12. The Huxley Lecture ON SOME PROBLEMS IN INFECTION AND ITS CONTROL. . The Lancet . November 1912 . 180 . 4654 . 1271–1278 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)40803-8.
  13. Ross . Ronald . Malaria and the Transmission of Diseases 1 . Nature . November 1914 . 94 . 2349 . 267–272 . 10.1038/094267a0. 1914Natur..94..267. . 3970030 .
  14. The Hurley Lecture ON RECENT ADVANCES IN SCIENCE IN THEIR RELATION TO PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND THE NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE BODY. . The Lancet . January 1921 . 197 . 5079 . 1–7 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)12915-6.
  15. Garrod . A. . The Huxley Lecture on Diathesis . BMJ . 26 November 1927 . 2 . 3490 . 967–971 . 10.1136/bmj.2.3490.967. 2525084 .
  16. Rolleston . Humphry . The Huxley Lecture On The Nature Of Disease . The British Medical Journal . 1929 . 1 . 3554 . 281–287 . 10.1136/bmj.1.3554.281 . 25331553 . 20774469 . 2450188 . 0007-1447.
  17. Lewis . T. . The Huxley Lecture on Clinical Science within the University . BMJ . 30 March 1935 . 1 . 3873 . 631–636 . 10.1136/bmj.1.3873.631. 20778959 . 2460048 .
  18. Adrian . E . Huxley: The Brain and the Mind*1 . The Lancet . 27 November 1937 . 230 . 5961 . 1233–1237 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)91832-4.