Lumleian lectures on rheumatic fever and valvular disease : March 23rd, 25th and 30th, 1909.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
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1909
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    fmnleiait ftttarts ON RHEUMATIC FEVER AND VALVULAR DISEASE. LECTURE I. Delivered on March 23rd. The Clinical Aspect of Rheumatic Fever. Mr. President, Censors, and Fellows of the College,—The learned person after whom the lectureship is named, to which you have been pleased to appoint me, inherited his estate from a grandfather who fought at Flodden Field. He was himself educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge, where he entered in May, 1549, and he retained a taste for learning throughout a long life, in which, as Lord Lumley, he took an active part in the dangerous politics of the time. His wife, a daughter of the twelfth Earl of Arundel, was as well read as her husband, and among their learned friends was Dr. Richard Caldwell, an Oxonian, sometime President of our College, who with Lord Lumley founded this lectureship in 1581. The fine books which belonged to Lord and Lady Lumley are evidence of their learned tastes, and were purchased at our benefactor’s death for Henry, Prince of Wales. They are preserved in the Royal Library in the British Museum. It seemed proper in expressing my own gratitude to the ' College to mention our debt to the founders of this lecture- ship, but I will not say more of their merits or achievements lest you should feel as did King James I. on April 13th, 1603, when the Dean of Durham at Lumley Castle addressed him so elaborately on the history of the family that he grew tired and called out, ‘ ‘ Oh! man, gang na further; let me digest the knowledge I have gained, for I did na ken Adam’s name was Lumley.”1 Rheumatic fever, on which I propose to lecture, is so •common a disease that every physician has seen very many examples of it, yet its natural history is still obscure in several directions. Its name takes us back to a pathology dong anterior to the revival of learning, and acute rheu - 1 Stow’s Chronicle.