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The Hunterian Society, founded in 1819 in honour of the Scottish surgeon John Hunter (1728–1793), is a society of physicians and dentists based in London.

Established by Dr William Cooke, a general practitioner, and Thomas Armiger, a surgeon, who both practiced in the City of London and the East End of London, the Society has devoted its activities for nearly two hundred years towards the pursuit of medical knowledge and learning. Meetings are always held over dinner, which precedes the subject for debate.

Between 1815 and 1828, Sir William Blizard (1743–1835), who was a former pupil of John Hunter, praised Hunter at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in three Hunterian Orations, and it is believed to be due to his influence that the new Society adopted the name 'Hunterian', rather than 'The London Medical and Physical Society', which was the name first proposed for it.

Blizard became the Society's first President and had the aim of keeping it within the Hunterian tradition. In an oration of 1826, he said: "May the honoured name of Hunter ever have a magic influence on the minds of its members".

The Society promotes an annual oration and awards an annual medal.

Hunterian Society Oration

According to the rules of the society: "The Annual Oration, to be called the Hunterian Society Oration, shall be delivered by the Orator for the current session, at a Meeting of the Society. The primary purpose of the Oration is to Commemorate the life and work of John Hunter, as also of his brother William Hunter, and to set forth the influence of the Hunterian example and tradition in the development of the science and art of Medicine. This tradition includes exact observation, experiment, and the application of anatomical and physiological science, human and comparative, to practical Medicine.It is not intended to exclude from the scope of the Annual Oration topics bearing upon the History of Medicine, and upon the relation of Medicine to other sciences and to human life in its widest sense, as well as other topics which cannot suitably be made the subject of an ordinary medical communication"..

Not to be confused with the Hunterian oration at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Source of names 1826-1907 ^[1]

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Hunterian Society medal

The gold medal has been awarded annually since 1932 for the best essay on a subject selected by the society.

The silver medal has been awarded since 1908 for the best essay by a general practitioner which embodied the results of his own investigations on the subject of medicine, surgery or midwifery.

The Society gives an annual prize, which is awarded for a presentation on a subject connected to the history of medicine, which "...may be modern but should have a Hunterian flavour". The Award is of £1,000, a medal and one year's membership of the Society.^[19]

Presidents

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Bibliography

Findlay, David W. (ed.) The Hunterian Society - a catalogue of its records and collections relating to John Hunter and the Hunterian Tradition with a history of the society (London: The Hunterian Society, 1990)

References

^ "Hunterian Society Orators, 1826–1906" (PDF). Hunterian Society. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
^ "John Hunter's Surgical Instruments and Surgical Procedures" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2010.
^ "Obituary-Douglas Woolf". Rheumatology. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
^ "John Hunter's women". BMJ. PMC 1992642.
^ "Gordon-Taylor, Sir Gordon (1878 - 1960)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
^ "The Hunterian Tradition". JSTOR 25355892. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "Basil T Parsons-Smith" (PDF). bmj.com. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
^ "Howard Atwood Kelly". KennethWMilano.com. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
^ "Hunterian Oration". JSTOR 25328122. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ BMJ http://www.bmj.com/content/1/3136/214.full.pdf. Retrieved 26 August 2010. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "William Hunter and his Work in Midwifery". BMJ. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
^ Tubby AH (1906). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ. 1 (2357): 481–8. PMC 2380731. PMID 20762550. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ "William Hunter". Google. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
^ "The Hunterian Oration" (PDF). BMJ. British Medical Association. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
^ Galabin AL (1887). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ. 1 (1374). British Medical Association: 919–25. PMC 2534416. PMID 20751884. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ "Abstract of the Oration Delivered before the Hunterian Society of London, February 7th, 1872". BMJ. PMC 2297239.
^ "An Oration delivered before the Hunterian Society". JSTOR 25218376. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "The Advance of Physic". bmj. PMC 2325557.
^ The Hunterian Society Medal and Scholarship at hunteriansociety.org.uk

The Hunterian Society - official web site

[1] "Hunterian Society Orators, 1826–1906" (PDF). Hunterian Society. Retrieved 2012-10-24.

[2] "John Hunter's Surgical Instruments and Surgical Procedures" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2010.

[3] "Obituary-Douglas Woolf". Rheumatology. Retrieved 30 August 2010.

[4] "John Hunter's women". BMJ. PMC 1992642.

[5] "Gordon-Taylor, Sir Gordon (1878 - 1960)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Retrieved 20 August 2010.

[6] "The Hunterian Tradition". JSTOR 25355892. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[7] "Basil T Parsons-Smith" (PDF). bmj.com. Retrieved 30 September 2010.

[8] "Howard Atwood Kelly". KennethWMilano.com. Retrieved 20 August 2010.

[9] "Hunterian Oration". JSTOR 25328122. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[10] BMJ http://www.bmj.com/content/1/3136/214.full.pdf. Retrieved 26 August 2010. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[11] "William Hunter and his Work in Midwifery". BMJ. Retrieved 24 August 2010.

[12] Tubby AH (1906). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ. 1 (2357): 481–8. PMC 2380731. PMID 20762550. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[13] "William Hunter". Google. Retrieved 1 October 2010.

[14] "The Hunterian Oration" (PDF). BMJ. British Medical Association. Retrieved 20 August 2010.

[15] Galabin AL (1887). "The Hunterian Oration". BMJ. 1 (1374). British Medical Association: 919–25. PMC 2534416. PMID 20751884. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[16] "Abstract of the Oration Delivered before the Hunterian Society of London, February 7th, 1872". BMJ. PMC 2297239.

[17] "An Oration delivered before the Hunterian Society". JSTOR 25218376. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[18] "The Advance of Physic". bmj. PMC 2325557.

[19] The Hunterian Society Medal and Scholarship at hunteriansociety.org.uk

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 ==Hunterian Society Oration==
-According to the rules of the society:'' "The Annual Oration, to be called the Hunterian Society Oration, shall be delivered by the Orator for the current session, at a Meeting of the Society. The primary purpose of the Oration is to Commemorate the life and work of John Hunter, as also of his brother William Hunter, and to set forth the influence of the Hunterian example and tradition in the development of the science and art of Medicine. This tradition includes exact observation, experiment, and the application of anatomical and physiological science, human and comparative, to practical Medicine.It is not intended to exclude from the scope of the Annual Oration topics bearing upon the History of Medicine, and upon the relation of Medicine to other sciences and to human life in its widest sense, as well as other topics which cannot suitably be made the subject of an ordinary medical communication".''. Not to be confused with the [[Hunterian oration]] at the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]].
+According to the rules of the society:'' "The Annual Oration, to be called the Hunterian Society Oration, shall be delivered by the Orator for the current session, at a Meeting of the Society. The primary purpose of the Oration is to Commemorate the life and work of John Hunter, as also of his brother William Hunter, and to set forth the influence of the Hunterian example and tradition in the development of the science and art of Medicine. This tradition includes exact observation, experiment, and the application of anatomical and physiological science, human and comparative, to practical Medicine.It is not intended to exclude from the scope of the Annual Oration topics bearing upon the History of Medicine, and upon the relation of Medicine to other sciences and to human life in its widest sense, as well as other topics which cannot suitably be made the subject of an ordinary medical communication".''.
+Not to be confused with the [[Hunterian oration]] at the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]].
+Source of names 1826-1907 <ref> {{cite web | url = http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/7/36/transactions1905hunt/transactions1905hunt.pdf| title = Hunterian Society Orators, 1826–1906|publisher = Hunterian Society|accessdate = 2012-10-24}} </ref>
 {{columns-list|2|
 *2011: Tim Cox
 *2010: Michael Crumplin, ''John Hunter and Medical Aspects of the Peninsular War''
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 *1921: Sir Henry H. Bashford, ''The Ideal Element in Medicine'' <ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/1/3136/214.full.pdf|journal = BMJ|accessdate= 26 August 2010}}</ref>
 *1915: Henry Russell Andrews, ''William Hunter and his Work in Midwifery'' <ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/1/2824/277|title=William Hunter and his Work in Midwifery|journal = BMJ|accessdate= 24 August 2010}}</ref>
+*1907: Lauriston Elgie Shaw
-*1906: A. H. Tubby, ''Recent Surgical Methods in the Treatment of Certain Types of Paralysis'' <ref>{{cite journal|title= The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|pmc=2380731|pmid=20762550|volume=1|issue=2357|year=1906|month=March|author=Tubby AH|pages=481–8}}</ref>
+*1906: Alfred Herbert Tubby, ''Recent Surgical Methods in the Treatment of Certain Types of Paralysis'' <ref>{{cite journal|title= The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|pmc=2380731|pmid=20762550|volume=1|issue=2357|year=1906|month=March|author=Tubby AH|pages=481–8}}</ref>
+*1905: Francis Rowland Humphreys
+*1904: John Francis Woods
+*1903: Thomas Horrocks Openshaw
+*1902: Arthur Templar Davies
+*1901: John Poland
+*1900: Frederick John Smith
+*1899: Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor, 5th Baronet
+*1898: Peter Horrocks
 *1897: Richard Hingston Fox, ''William Hunter, Anatomist, Physician, Obstetrician'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/williamhunteran00foxgoog#page/n0/mode/1up|title= William Hunter|publisher= Google|accessdate= 1 October 2010}}</ref>
+*1896: George Newton Pitt
+*1895: [[Sir Patrick Manson]]
+*1894: James Dundas Grant
+*1893: John Sell Edmund Cotton
+*1892: Charters James Symonds
 *1891: Fletcher Beach, ''Psychological Medicine in John Hunter's Time and the Progress it has Since Made''
+*1890: Sir Stephen Mackenzie
-*1888: R. Clement Lucas, ''On the life-work of John Hunter and his Influence on Surgery'' <ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/1/1416/335.pdf|title = The Hunterian Oration|journal= BMJ|publisher = British Medical Association|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref>
+*1889: George Ernest Herman
+*1888: Richard Clement Lucas, ''On the life-work of John Hunter and his Influence on Surgery'' <ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/1/1416/335.pdf|title = The Hunterian Oration|journal= BMJ|publisher = British Medical Association|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref>
 *1887: Alfred Lewis Galabin, ''The Etiology of Puerperal Fever''<ref>{{cite journal|title = The Hunterian Oration|journal= BMJ|publisher = British Medical Association|pmc=2534416|pmid=20751884|volume=1|issue=1374|year=1887|month=April|author=Galabin AL|pages=919–25}}</ref>
+*1886: [[Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet]]
+*1885: James Edward Adams
+*1884: Francis Charlewood Turner
+*1883: Edward Gillette Gilbert
 *1882: Robert Fowler, ''The attributes, professional and social, of the so-called "Family Doctor"''
+*1881: Alfred Henry Smee
-*1879:[[John Braxton Hicks]]
+*1880: [[Philip Henry Pye-Smith]]
+*1879: Walter Rivington
 *1878: Peter Lodwick Burchell, ''A Brief Sketch of the Ancient History of Medicine''
+*1877: Walter Moxon
-*1876: Henry Sutton
+*1876: Henry Gawen Sutton
+*1875: Henry Gervis
+*1874: John Couper
+*1873: Arthur Edward Durham
 *1872: [[John Hughlings Jackson]], ''The Physiological Aspects of Education'' <ref>{{cite journal|title  = Abstract of the Oration Delivered before the Hunterian Society of London, February 7th, 1872|journal = BMJ|pmc=2297239}}</ref>
+*1871: Thomas Boor Crosby, ''Modern Medicine: has it kept pace in advancement with the times?''
 *1870: Thomas Bryant on Drugs and their Uses <ref>{{cite journal|jstor=25218376|title=An Oration delivered before the Hunterian Society|publisher=}}</ref>
+*1869: Henry Isaac Fotherby
-*1864: [[Jonathan Hutchinson]], ''The Advance of Physic'' <ref>{{cite journal|title= The Advance of Physic|journal = bmj|pmc=2325557}}</ref>
+*1868: [[John Braxton Hicks]]
+*1867: William Sedgwick Saunders
+*1866: Dennis de Berdt Hovell
+*1865: [[Jonathan Hutchinson]], ''The Advance of Physic'' <ref>{{cite journal|title= The Advance of Physic|journal = bmj|pmc=2325557}}</ref>
+*1864: John Jackson
+*1863: Robert Barnes
+*1862: Thomas Bevill Peacock
 *1861: [[Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet|Sir William Withey Gull]]
+*1860: Stephen Henry Ward
-*1855: [[John Snow (physician)|John Snow]], ''On Chloroform and other Anaesthetics'' <ref>{{cite journal|url=http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/29/5/238|title=On Chloroform and other Anaesthetics|journal= British Journal of Anaesthetics|accessdate= 1 September 2010}}</ref>
+*1859: Alfred Smee
+*1858: William Munk
+*1857: Henry Oldham
+*1856: Thomas Calloway, jnr
+*1855: Joseph Ridge
+*1854: George Owen Rees
+*1853: Thoams Mee Daldy
+*1852: William James Little
+*1851: John Charles Weaver Lever
+*1850: George Critchett
+*1849: Sir James Risden Bennett
+*1848: [[Thomas Blizard Curling]]
+*1847: George Hilaro Barlow
+*1846: John Adams
+*1845: John Thomson
+*1844: [[John Hilton (surgeon)|John Hilton]]
+*1843: Francis Henry Ramsbotham
+*1842: Samuel Solly
+*1841: Samuel Ashwell
+*1840: Thomas Bell
 *1839: William Cooke, ''Minds and the Emotions considered in relation to Health''
+*1838: William Coulson
+*1837: [[Benjamin Guy Babington]]
+*1838: [[Bransby Blake Cooper]]
+*1832: [[Archibald Billing]]
 *1831: Charles Aston Key
+*1830: John Tricker Conquest
+*1829: [[Benjamin Travers]]
+*1828: Benjamin Robinson
+*1827: [[William Babington (physician)|William Babington]]
 *1826: Sir [[William Blizard]] Inaugural Oration
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