The Hunterian oration for the year 1907 : being the sixty-third Hunterian oration since its foundation : delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons : On the objects of Hunter's life and the manner in which he accomplished them / by Henry T. Butlin.

  • Butlin, Henry T. (Henry Trentham), 1845-1912.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The Hunterian oration for the year 1907 : being the sixty-third Hunterian oration since its foundation : delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons : On the objects of Hunter's life and the manner in which he accomplished them / by Henry T. Butlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOR THE YEAR 1907 Mb. Peesident, Ladies, and Gentlemen, There is only one Fellow of the College to whom I need refer in the obituary which is asso- ciated with this lecture, but I should be very sorry to omit all mention of his name. Cheistopher Heath was a very active and useful member of the Council of the College for many years, and became its President in 1895. In 1897 he delivered the Hunterian oration. His books on ' Practical Ana- tomy ' and ' Minor Surgery' early gained for him a reputation as a teacher, and he retained that repu- tation throughout his career at University College Hospital. Indeed, he added to it by the directness of his speech and the clearness of his views. I believe he would have attained greater success as a surgeon had he belonged wholly to the pre- or the post-antiseptic period. But coming, as he did, between the two he found it difficult to adapt him- self to the altered conditions which the vast chano-e of thought and practice imposed on our profession.