West Sussex History of Medicine Society

2020 lectures have been cancelled owing to the Coronavirus.  We anticipate the new season starting in 2021.

The next series of lectures starts again on:

Saturday 9th October 2021

All meetings Saturdays 1000-1200hrs. £5 per session including coffee.  Students free.  Certificates of attendance for Continuing Professional Development will be provided

 Saturday 9^th October

The Doctor Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture

1.“Diabetes: an ancient disease; a modern epidemic”

Professor Ken Shaw MA MD FRCP

2.  “Skin Deep:  A History of British Dermatology”

Dr Richard Staughton LVO MA FRCP

Saturday 23^rd October 

1.Shakespeare among the Physicians”

Professor Duncan Salkeld MA PhD

2. “The Buckston Browne Research Farm Legacy”

Mrs Elizabeth Beckman BSc(Eng) FBIR 

Saturday 6^th November

1.“The Broadmoor Doctors.”      

Paul Devonshire BA (hons) AFBPS

2.  “The History of Spinal Cord Injury Management”

Lt-Col John Reynard DM MA LLM FRCS Urol  RAMC

                                                                                                                                       

Saturday 20^th November

1.”Victorian Vaccination: Universal Care and Unwanted Interference”

Mr Graham Kyle MSc LLM FRCSEd FRCOphth DHMSA

 2.“Nicholas Culpeper: Heroic Herbalist to his Patients, Mischief Maker in Chief for the Medical Masters of his Day”

Mrs Afifah Hamilton MNIMH 

 Saturday 4^th December   

1.”Louis Pasteur and the Rabies Virus”

Dr Tim Mason PhD

2.  “Anna Wessels Williams: Forgotten Pioneer of Microbiology”

    Patrick Pead  MSc FIBMS MIBiol FHA

For further details contact Prof John Richardson 01243-780786, or RichardsonDrJ@aol.com,

or 1 Franklin Place, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1BL or www.wshoms.co.uk 

• free car parking for meetings adjacent to the Chichester Medical Education Centre

We would like to wish you all well at this time of crisis and also         remember the person who brought in the discipline of hand washing.   

During the Crimean War at a time when most people believed that infections were caused by foul odours called miasmas, Florence Nightingale implemented handwashing and other hygiene practices in the war hospital in which she worked, thus reducing cross infection significantly among the sick. Lets remember her well’.