Program 2023
The Doctor Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture
Saturday 30th September
1.”Britain’s Rejuvenators”
Mr Dominic Hodgson MSc Med FRCS(Urol) DHMSA
2. “The Glow Girls”
Patrick Pead MSc FIBMS MIBiol FHA
Saturday 14th October
1. “Scottish Anatomy during the long 19th Century”
Mr Graham Kyle MB LLM MSc MLitt FRCSE FRCOphth DHMSA
2. “Wilhem Conrad Rontgen- Discoverer of X-Rays”
Dr Adrian Thomas FBIR
Saturday 28th October
1.“Why Poisonous Plants Make Good Medicines”
Dr Henry Oakeley FRCP VMH FLS
2. “Sir Hans Sloane”
Anthony Cartwright BSc FRPharmS FTOPRA
Saturday 11th November
1. “English Civil War Pension Claims”
Dr Ismini Pells MA PhD
2. “Care of Wounded Veterans 1815 to the present day – Who cares?”
Prof John Richardson MA MB MSc MedMSc FRCGP FFOM(I)
Saturday 25th November
1.”Quack Doctors – From James Graham and His Celestial Bed to John St Long and his Vapour and Lotion Treatment to Treat Consumption”
Dr Nicholas Cambridge MD FRSPH FSA FLS FRSA FRHistS
2. “Historical Experimentation at Porton Down (The Operation Antler Inquiry)”
Prof Ken Shaw MA MD FRCP
Program 2022
Saturday 15th October
The Doctor Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture
Introduced by WSHOMS Chairman Dr Adam Stone
1.”Two Saints of Humanity Samuel Johnson and William Osler”
Dr John Ward FRCPEdin FRCGP DRCOG
2. “Learning on the job: from apron and broom tomodern GP training”
Dr Chris Derrett BSc MPhil MRCGP DHMSA
Saturday 29th October
1. “100 Million Years of Malaria”
Dr Tim Mason PhD
2. “Nicholas Culpeper’s Complete Herbal”
Mrs Afifah Hamilton MNIMH
Saturday 12th November
1.“Medicine and Surgery in Nelson’s Navy.”
Dr Peter Brinsden
2. “The Real Doctor Watson”
Col(Retd) Jag Jagdish MRCA MBA MA
Saturday 26th November
1. “Sir David Bruce and The Saga of Brucellosis”
Col (Retd) David Vassallo FRCSEd DHMSA MA
2. “The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and its contribution in WW1”
Dr Edward Wawrzynczak PhD DHMSA
Saturday 10th December
1.”Bleak Health: The Medical Health of Charles Dickens and his Family”
Dr Nicholas Cambridge MD MRCS FSAFLS FRSA FRHistS
2. “HIV – that other deadly virus”
Dr Richard Staughton LVO MA FRCP
2021 Programme of Talks
Saturday 9th October
The Doctor Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture
Introduced by WSHOMS Programme Dr Adam Stone
1. .”Victorian Vaccination: Universal Care and Unwanted Interference”
Mr Graham Kyle MSc LLM FRCSEd FRCOphth DHMSA
2. “Daniel Turner, The Father of British Dermatology”
Dr Richard Staughton LVO MA FRCP
Saturday 23rd October
1.Shakespear and Medicine”
Prof Duncan Salkeld MA PhD
2. “The Buckston Browne Research Farm Legacy”
Mrs Elizabeth Beckman BSc(Eng) FBIR
Saturday 6th November
1.“The Broadmoor Doctors.” Paul Devonshire BA(Hons) AFBPS
2. “The History of Spinal Cord Injury Management”
Mr John Reynard DM MA LLM FRCS(urol), Lt-Col RAMC
Saturday 13th November
1. “Diabetes: an ancient disease; a modern epidemic”
Professor Ken Shaw MA MD FRCP
2. “Jesuits’ Bark, A reliable medicine of old with surprising current controversy”
Mrs Afifah Hamilton MNIMH
Saturday 4th December
1.”Louis Pasteur and the Rabies Virus”
Dr Tim Mason BSc MSc PhD
2. “Anna Wessels Williams: Forgotten Pioneer of Microbiology”
Patrick Pead MSc FIBMS MIBiol FHA
There was no programme of lectures in 2020
2019 Autumn Programme
Saturday 12th October
1. “The Contagious Diseases Acts; Protection, Prejuduce and Punishment “
Mr Graham Kyle MB ChB MSc LLM FRCSEd FRCOphth DHMSA
2. “Masturbation and mass delusion- the story of Spermatorrhea?”
Mr Dominic Hodgson MSc MEd FRCS(Urol) DHMSA
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Saturday 26th October
1.“Celebrating the centenary of the birth of Godfrey Hounsfield – Intuitive genius of CT”
Mrs Elizabeth Beckman BSc(Eng) FBIR
2. “Forensic DNA Fingerprinting”
Professor Peter Goldfarb BSc PhD FRCPath FBTS
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Saturday 9th November
1. “Great Losses of the Great War.” Mr John Reynard DM MA LLM FRCS(urol), Major RAMC
2. “The “Spanish” Influenza Pandemic 1916-1919” Dr Jane Orr MBBS DHMSA
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Saturday 23th November
1.”Seafarers and Scurvy, the local connections”
Professor Duncan Colin-Jones MD FRCP(London)
2. “Assigned and Appoyntyd: Surgeons in HenryVIII’s Army by Sea”
Diane Budden MSc DHMSA DCRM
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Saturday 7th December
1.”Curiosities and Cures: The Medical Collection at the Science Museum” Natasha McEnroe MA
2. WSHOMS Christmas Quiz Chairman and Deputy Chairman
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For further details contact Prof John Richardson 01243-780786, or RichardsonDrJ@aol.com,
or 1 Franklin Place, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1BL
2018 Autumn Programme
Saturday 13th October
1a.“Sake Dean Mahomet, Shampooing Surgeon to George IV” David Beevers MA FSA
1b. “Frederick Henry Horatio Akhbar Mohomed of Guy’s Hospital, the first to describe essential hypertension.” Professor Gareth Beevers MD FRCP FBHS
2. “Chichester’s John Wickham(1927-2017) – The Godfather of Robotic Surgery”
Mr Dominic Hodgson DHMSA MScMed FRCS(Urol)
Saturday 27th October
1.“Hospital Ships, Past and Present, Do They Have a Future?”
Surgeon Rear Admiral Mike Farquhason-Roberts CBE PhD MA FRCS
2. “Royal Hospital Haslar.”
Eric C. Birbeck MVO MSM
Saturday 10th November
1. “Death and Disease at Norman Cross Prison: The Health of Prisoners of War 1797-1814.”
Paul Chamberlain FIBMS FINS
2. “The Lady of the Black Horse, Mabel Stoddart”
Dr Peter Down MB BS FRCP DHMSA
Saturday 24th November
1. “The Polio Story” Dr Tim Mason BSc MSc PhD
2. “Crusade to Visual Aid, The St John Eye Hospitals Jerusalem and Palestine”
Surgeon Captain James Walsh KStJ RD RNR
Saturday 8th December
The Fifth Brian Owen Smith Memorial Lecture
1.”Nurse Edith Cavell, An Example of Persistence, Professionalism and a Global Inspiration”
Professor John Richardson MA FRCGP FFOM(RCPI)
2. Open session to discuss the future of the WSHOMS and suggestions for future speakers.
Dr Adam Stone Chairman and Mr Dominic Hodgson Deputy Chairman
2017 Autumn Programme
Saturday 14th October
1.The Fourth Dr Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture
‘“James Parkinson” Professor Ken Shaw MA MD FRCP
2. “Keats and Medicine, an exploration of the relationship”
Professor Sean Hughes MS FRCSEd(Ortho) FRCS FRCSI DHMSA
Saturday 28th October
1.“Franklinism, Galvanism and Mesmerism: Electricity and Magnetism in Medicine” Dr Nicholas Cambridge MD MRCS FSA FLS FRSA
2. “Dr John Paulley (1918-2007), a distinctive and distinguished physician.”
Dr Peter Down MB BS FRCP DHMSA
Saturday 11th November
1.“The life, work and legacy of Professor Dr Nicholai Pirogov”
Major-General (Ret’d) Mungo Melvin CB OBE
2. “Facial reconstruction in Italy in WW1 ”
Miss Emily Stone
Saturday 25th November
1. “The Plague: 2000BC to 2000AD” Dr Tim Mason BSc MSc PhD
2. “Medicinal therapy: the odyssey from pre-history to the present-day”
Dr Peter Bennett MD FRCP DHMSA
Saturday 9th December
1. ”President Roosevelt’s stroke, causes, consequences and conspiracies.”
Professor Gareth Beevers MD FRCP FBHS
2. “A short history of Quality in the NHS”
Dr Charles Shaw PhD MB BS FHSM FHPM
2016 Autumn Programme
The Third Dr Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture
‘“Not Quite Haslar”– The Forgotten Story of Medical Provision in 19th Century Portsmouth’
Hilary Morris MA DHMSA FRSM FWSA
2. “King Edward VII Hospital Midhurst, One of the lost hospitals of West Sussex”
Dr Marjorie Semmens MD DCH
Saturday 22nd October 2016
1. “Egyptian Ophthalmia and the Rise of Ophthalmology” Mr Graham Kyle MB ChB MSc LLM FRCSEd FRCOphth DHMSA
2. “Sir Michael Woodruff, Japanese PoW, Transplantation surgeon, Immunological opposition to tumours and developments since his death.”
Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
Saturday 5th November 2016
1. “Graylingwell War Hospital, 1915-19” Katherine Slay, Archives Assistant, West Sussex Record Office
2. “The Nurse of the Mediterranean: Malta in WW1” Colonel David Vassallo FRCSEd DHMSA L/RAMC
Saturday 19th November 2016
1. “Dr John Forbes of Chichester and his Medical Friends” Dr John Wilmot MA MSc MB ChB FRCGP
2. “Dentistry of 18th &19th Century as seen through Cartoons” Tony Druttman BSc(Chem Eng) BChD MSc
Saturday 3rd December 2016
1. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Innoculation” Dr Simon Chaplin PhD FDSRCS
2. “Benjamin Jesty: A Bicentenary Review” Patrick Pead MSc FIBMS FHA
2015 Autumn Programme
10 October
1a. “Orthopaedic Surgery, has it a history?”
Professor Sean Hughes MS FRCS Ed(Orth) FRCS FRCSI DHMSA
1b. “How Illness in World Leaders has Affected History”.
Dr Robert Palmer MB BS FFARCS DRCOG
24 October
2a. “A very unromantic disease: Tuberculous lives from Smollet to Orwell”.
Dr Helen J Bynum BSc MSc PhD
2b. “Darwin and the Doctors”
Dr William F Bynum MD PhD FRCP
7 November
3a. “Wounded – The Long Journey Home from the Great War”.
Dr Emily Mayhew MSc PhD
3b. “Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War”
Prof Christine Hallett PhD(Nursing), PhD(History), RGN FRSM FRSA
21 November
4a. “Archbishops, East India Company & Public Health: Life as a busy Victorian GP” Dr Nicholas Cambridge MD MRCS FSA FLS FRSA
4b. “Sir Henry Wellcome”
Prof Tilli Tansey OBE PhD PhD DSc FMedSci FRCP
5 December
5a. The Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture
“East to West and Back: Nasal Tales
Mr KMN Kunzru MS FRCS DHMSA
5b. “Jeanne Beaudon, Chorea, Cabaret Star, Lautrec’s Muse”.
Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
2014 Autumn Programme
Saturday 11 October 2014
The Dr Brian Owen-Smith Memorial Lecture
“Medicine, Science and Philanthropy: Fothergill, Lettsom, Priestley, Franklin and their circle”
Dr Nicholas Cambridge MD FSA FLS FRSA.
“Scrofula, Gout and Dropsy: Dr Samuel Johnson and his Physicians.”
Dr Nicholas Cambridge MD FSA FLS FRS A.
Saturday 25th October 2014
“Healing Rituals in the late Victorian Countryside”
Julie Wakefield
“Syphilis and War – the necessary requirement for an epidemic”
Lt-Col Ngozi Dufty MRCP MCGI DTM&H RAMC
Saturday 8th November 2014
“Ronald Ross and Malaria”
Colonel David Ross QHP FRCPCH FFPHM FFTM RCPS(Glasg) L/RAMC
“David Bruce and Brucellosis”
Colonel David Vassallo FRCS DHMSA L/RAMC
Saturday 22nd November 2014
“George Stubbs, the Hunter Brothers, and a Yorkshire Cure for Cough”
Dr Ann Ferguson FRCA DHMSA
“Jean-Martin Charcot: a modern European”
Mr Ian Stephen FRCS
Saturday 6th December 2014
“The Hospitaller Knights of St John”
Mrs Sue Weir RGN DHMSA
“Marfan – The Man and his Syndrome”
Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
2013 Autumn Programme
Saturday 12th October 2013
1. “A Glass of Wine before Visiting the Sick: the Clinical Sense of James Lind (Physician 1758-1783)” Professor Ken Shaw MA MD FRCP
2. “Beethoven: His Life and His Music” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
Saturday 26th October 2013
1. “The Study of Human Movement” Professor Mike Whittle MB BS BSc MSc PhD
2. “Dracula, Doctors and Diagnosis” Dr Fiona Subotsky MA FRCPsych
Saturday 9th November 2013
1. “World War 1 and the Birth of Maxillo-Facial Surgery” Col Michael Williams FDSRCPS FRCS FRCS(OFMS) L/RAMC
2. “Did the President of the Royal College of Physicians Help Churchill Win the War?” Dr Anthony Eisinger FRCP
Saturday 23rd November 2013
1. “Neuropsychiatry in Babylon” Dr Edward Reynolds MD FRCP FRCPsych
2. “A Century of British Military Neuro-surgery” Mr Peter Stanworth OBE TD MA FRCS
Saturday 7th December 2013
1. “St Wilfrids Hospice – The dream of 1980 to the reality of 2013” Dr CJT Bateman MA BM FRCP
2. “From the Slaughter House of Blood to Mr Pickwick: Charles Dickens and Medicine” Dr Nicholas Cambridge MD MRCS FSA FLS FRSA
2012 Autumn Programme
Saturday 13th October
1. “Botany and Empire: Materia Medica in the 19th Century” Dr Mark Nesbitt PhD FLS
2. “The History of Tonsillectomy: Henry Cline & Sir Astley Cooper at St Thomas’s Hospital” Dr John Sedgewick MA FRCGP DHMSA
Saturday 27th October
1. “The Northern Leper and Dr Hansen” Dr John Ford MD FRCGP DHMSA
2. “Benjamin Franklin and Medicine” Dr Brian Owen-Smith FRCP DHMSA
Saturday 10th November
1. “Dr William Cuming, MD FRCPE, 18th Century Dorchester Physician” Dr Peter Down MB BS FRCP DHMSA
2. “Infection Control in Warfare” Surg Lt-Cdr A Matheson BSc(Hons) MB BS
Saturday 24th November
1. “Palaeopathology and Medicine in Ancient Egypt” Professor Rosalie David OBE BA PhD FRSA
2. “The Most Kissed Woman in the World” Dr David Wilkinson MB BS FRCA HonFRCARCSI
Saturday 8th December
1. “Kinnier Wilson (1878-1937) and his film of patients with movement disordersmade at Queen Square in the mid-1920s” Dr Edward Reynolds MD FRCP FRCPsych
2. “Artists’s Eyes: Oscar Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
2011 Autumn Programme
Saturday 8th October
1. “Nicholas Culpepper: London’s First General Practitioner” Professor Michael Farthing MD DSc FRCP FMedSci
2. “Victorian General Practice: John Gorman 1814-1899” Dr John Ford MD FRCGP DHMSA
Saturday 22rd October
1. “The Early Centuries of Paediatrics and Child Health” Professor John Walker-Smith MD BS (Sydney) FRCP(Ed & Lond) FRACP FRCPCH
2. “A Life in Anatomy: Learning, Using and Teaching Anatomy” Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG
Saturday 5th November
1. “Corsets to Combat: Women in the Army Medical Services from the Civil War to Afghanistan” Capt (retd) Peter Starling MA DHMSA FRHistS
2. “Facial Injuries at QM Hospital Sidcup in WW1” Dr Andrew Bamji FRCP
Saturday 19th November
1. “The Development of Audiovestibular Medicine” Dr Peter West MA MSc FRCP FRCS
2. “Skylab(1973-4): Science and Medicine in Space” Professor Mike Whittle BSc MB BS MSc PhD
Saturday 3rd December
1. “Not at the cutting edge: British women in surgery 1873-1939”. Dr Jennian Geddes MA FRCPath
2. “Fredyryc-Francois Chopin 1810-1849: Music and Malady” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
2010 Autumn Programme
Saturday 9th October
1. “The Notorious Case of Polonium Poisoning” Dr Jim Down FRCA EDIC
2. “King George III’s Malady: Re-evaluation of the Porphyria Diagnosis and the Implications” Professor Timothy Peters PhD DSc FRCP FRCPath FRSA
Saturday 23rd October
1“The Birmingham Hospitals” Dr Jonathan Reinarz PhD
2“ The History of the Royal West Sussex Hospital” Mr Martin Cooke BA MPhil DipIHSA
Saturday 6th November
“George Guthrie – Soldier and Pioneer Surgeon” Mr Raymond Hurt FRCS DHMSA
“Mud, Blood and Gas: Trench Warfare in WW1 through the Eyes of Artists” Dr John Sedgwick MA FRCGP DHMSA
Saturday 20th November
“The Discovery of the Double Helix and the Beginning of the Biological Revolution” Dr Brian Owen-Smith MA FRCP DHMSA
“The Dying Keats: A Case for Euthenasia” Professor Brian Livesley MD FRCP
Saturday 4th December
“Florence Nightingale” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
“Royal Operations” Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG
2009 Autumn Programme
Saturday 3rd October
“Hess; Was he Rudolf or was he not?” Brigadier (Retd) Ronald Smart OStJ BDS FDS DOrthRCS
“Moveability at Will: Eighteenth-Century Portable Hospitals” Dr Eric Gruber von Arni RRC PhD FRHistS
Saturday 17th October
“The Establishment of the Army Medical School and Services after the Crimean War” Captain (Retd)PH Starling DHMSA FRHistS
“Leuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy”. Professor Brian Ford FIBiol CBiol FLS
Saturday 31st October
“The History of Artificial Kidney Treatment” Dr Frank Marsh FRCP
“John Langdon Down & Down’s Syndrome” Professor Conor Ward MD FRCPI FRCP(Glas) FRCP PhD(Med Hist)
Saturday 14th November
“Sir Joseph Fayrer and the Anglo-Indian Cholera Policy in the late 19th Century” Dr Henry Connor MB BChir MD FRCP
“Henri Marie Raymond Toulouse Lautrec Montfa – Artistic Genius and Medical Curiosity” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
Saturday 28th November
“Dr Alexander Gordon & Puerperal Fever – a medical detective story” Dr Peter Bennett MD FRCP DHMSA
“Murder by Curare” Dr Ann Ferguson FRCA DHMSA
2008 Autumn Programme
Saturday 4th October
“19th Century Medical Politics and the origins of the Herefordshire Medical Association”
“Mediaeval Uroscopy and its representation on Misericords” both by Dr Henry Connor MB BChir MD FRCP
Saturday 18th October
“The Dark Ages of Pharmacology” Dr Raymond Greenlees MB BChir DObstRCOG
“The First Vaccinator’s Portrait” Patrick J Pead MSc MIBiol FIBMS
Saturday 1st November
“The Indian Military Hospitals & the Royal Pavilion Brighton 1914-15” Louise Hume MA
“First Day of the Somme – a Surgical Catastrophe” Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG
Saturday 15th November
“Britain’s First Medical Marriage – The Welsh Woman, the Scotsman and the Mysterious Elsie”
“Public Statues of Medical Doctors” both by Professor Neil McIntyre
Saturday 29th November
“Louis Pasteur: A Scientist among Doctors” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
“Writ in Water – Identity and the Dentist – Dark ages to the present day”. Mr RD Foden BDS LDS RCS DipFOdont RFP
2007 Autumn Programme
Saturday 29th September 2007
“Dr David Daniel Davis, Physician Accoucheur – 1777-1841” Dr Barbara Ely MB BS DHMSA
“The History of the Hospice Movement” Rev. Christine Gardiner SRN
Saturday 13th October 2007
“The Plague of Athens 430-427BC” Professor Robert Arnott BA MA FRHistS
“Military militants: suffragists and the Endell Street Hospital” 1915-19 Jennian Geddes FRCPath MA
Saturday 27th October 2007
“History of Joint Replacement” Mr James Antrobus MB BS FRCS
“Marcus Aurelius” Dr Robert Richardson BM Bch LMSSA
Saturday 10th November 2007
“Mistaken Gallantry – The Medical Victoria Crosses” Capt (Retd) Peter Starling DHMSA FRSH
“The History of Military Dentistry” Air Commodore Freddie Hulm BDS
Saturday 24th November 2007
“Professor Hans Krebs – Pioneer of Modern Medicine” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
“Surgical Firsts” Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG
2006 Autumn Programme
Saturday 30th September 2006
Haslemere Natural History Educational Museum.
“Celebration of Dr Johnathan Hutchinson” by Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG and Professor Robert Jackson MD Ontario Canada.
Saturday 14th October 2006v
“Vaccination Rediscovered”
“Self-publishing your history project” Patrick Pead MSc MIViol FIBMS
Saturday 28th October 2006
“Leeches” Dr Mary R. Medhurst MB ChB
“Maggots” Mr Andrew Jarvis MB BChir FRCS
Saturday 11th November 2006
“War and Medicine”
“Experience of conflicts and the humans dimension of deployments” Major-General Alan Hawley OBE DHMSA DGAMS
Saturday 25TH November 2006
“The Anatomist and Art, The Artist and Anatomy” Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG
“George B Gordon: His Life and Medical Problems” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
2005 Autumn Programme
Saturday 1st October 2005
“Napoleon’s Post mortem or The Rehabilitation of Francesco Antommarchi” Dr Robert Richardson BM BCh LMSSA
“Scurvy – How to research a topic, and exercise in research” Hilary S Morris MA DHMA FRSM
Saturday 15th October 2005
“Surgery at the Battle of Trafalgar: British and French Experiences” Surgeon-Vice Admiral (Retd) Sir James Watt KBE MS FRCP FRCS FSA
Saturday 29th October 2006
“A History of Cardio-Thorasic Surgery” Dr Raymond Hurt FRCS DHMSA
“Michael Woodruff – The first successful UK renal transplant” Dr Winston Leigh BA MB ChB MRCGP
Saturday 12th November 2005
“Plastic Surgery – The Early Years”
“Plastic Surgery – The McIndoe Years” Air Commodore R F Brown MA FRCS RAF (Retd)
Saturday 26th November
“The Story of Diverticulitis”
“Some more famous operations” Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG
2004 Autumn Programme
Saturday 2nd October 2004
“Quinine, from the Countess of Cinchona to Ronald Reagan” Professor Ewan Anderson: Professor Emeritus of Geopolitics, University of Durham
Saturday 16th October 2004
“Arrow poison to anaesthesia – a brief history of curare”
“History of anatomy” Dr Ann Ferguson: Secretary to the British Society of History of Medicine.
Saturday 30th October 2004
“Colonial Medicine in New Zealand” Professor Ross Laurenson DHMSA. Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Surrey
Saturday 13th November 2004
“Obstetrics practise at Guy’s Hospital in the early 18th century” Dr Sophia Stone DHMSA
“Larrey – What sort of man?” Dr Robert Richardson BM BCh LMSSA
Saturday 27th November 2004
“Cutting for the stone”
“56 Years in the NHS – an old surgeon looks back” Professor Harold Ellis CBE MA DM MCh FRCS FACS FRCOG
2003 Autumn Programme
Saturday 4th October 2003
“Health Care in the English Civil War” Dr Eric Gruber von Arni PhD RGN
Saturday 18th October 2003
“Vesalius to Cheselden – Anatomy in the Renaissance and After” Dr John Ford MB BS DHSMA
Saturday 1st November 2003
“History of British Gastro-enterology” Dr Peter Down FRCP DHMSA
Saturday 15th November 2003
“The Penicillin Story” Professor Harold Ellis CBE DM MCh FRCS
Saturday 29th November 2003
“The Discovery of the Hewson Anatomy School” Dr Brian Owen-Smith
2002 Autumn Programme
Saturday 5th October 2002
“Surgeon Major Africanus Horton – an African doctor ahead of his time” Professor John Richardson MA FRCGP FRCOM (i)
“History Project for year” Military Ophthalmic Institute of the South Coast.
Saturday 19th October 2002
“Surgery in the Napoleonic Wars” with exbits
“Discussions” Mr Mike Crumplin FRCS Emeritus Consultant Surgeon, Wrexham
Saturday 2nd November 2002
“From Smallpox to No Pox”
“Discussions” Dr Adam Stone MRCP, Consultant Gastroenterologist St Richard’s Hospital.
Saturday 16th November 2002
“Muscles, Madams and Mineral Waters: The Cult of the National Health in France, 1870 – 1914 (Illustrated)
“Discussions” Professor Michael Biddiss, Department of History, University of Reading.
Saturday 30th November 2002
“The Saga of Brucellosis”
“Discussions” Lt Col David Vassalo RAMC
2001 Autumn Programme
Saturday 15th September 2001
“History of the Royal Medical Defence College” Professor John Richardson
“Discussion” Hilary Morris
Saturday 29th September 2001
“Prickard’s Inquisition – an 18th century inquest” Mr Brian Owen-Smith
“Using recorded sources, with reference to Dr John Bailey of Chichester” Dr Barbara Ely
Saturday 20th October 2001
“Taking the waters of Tunbridge Wells”
“Un-reseached sources – where is medical history?” Dr John Ford
Saturday 3rd November 2001
“James Barry” Ruth Richardson and Professor Brian Hurowitz
Saturday 17th November 2001
“The Saga of Brucellosis” David Vassalo
“DrJohn Forbes” Dr Mike Nicholls
2000 Autumn Programme
Saturday 7th October 2000
“Development of General Practice Before and After 1858” Dr John Ford, President of the Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy, Society of Apothecaries.
Saturday 21st October 2000
“The Evolution of Clinical Diagnosis and Investigation” Professor Rodney Taylor, Society of Apothecaries.
Saturday 4th November 2000
“The Role of the Professional Historian in Interpreting the History of Medicine” Professor Mike Biddiss, Department of History, University of Reading
Saturday 18th November 2000
“Variations on the Theme – “Death, Dissection and the Destitute”‘ Dr Ruth Richardson PhD, Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine.
Saturday 25th November 2000
“Tudor Barber Surgeons and Their Practices on the Mary Rose” Joanna Castle BA DHMSA
“Major William Barnsley Allen VC DSO MC – An Enigmatic Death” Professor John Richardson MA MRCGP
1999 Autumn Programme
Saturday 9th October 1999
“The Evolution of Clinical Investigation – Part 1”
”The Society of Apothecaries and the DHMSA” Professor Rodney Taylor, Secretary to the Apothecaries Society
Saturday 16th October 1999
“The Methodology and historiography of History of Medicine” Dr Brian Owen-Smith FRCP
“The Medical Enlightenment of the 18th Century” Ludmilla Jordanova Professor of Visual Arts, University of East Anglia
Saturday 23 October 1999
“The Role of Professional Historians in interpreting the History of Medicine” Dr Ruth Richardson
Saturday 13th November 1999
“Unravelling the past – researching the first Medical Officer of Hea
Dr Barbara Ely Apothecaries and Chichester Community Health Council
“Using primary source material in historical/medical research”
Tim McCann Chichester Archivist
Saturday 27th November 1999
“The History of Tomorrow – current medical research: maggots and wounds”
Mr Andrew Jarvis FRCS
“The History of Medicine – can it be anything more than academic luxury or is it an essential part of training for the modern healthcare profession?”
Hilary Morris. Lecturer University College, Chichester Member of the Faculty of History of Medicine.
West Sussex History of Medicine Society 