Fitzpatrick Lecture

{{Short description|Annual lecture at the Royal College of Physicians}}

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The Fitzpatrick Lecture is given annually at the Royal College of Physicians on a subject related to history of medicine.{{cite book|last=Briggs|first=Asa|title=A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpm8gmGt7Q4C&pg=PA1684|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-925334-0|pages=1684–1689}} The lecturer, who must be a fellow of the college, is selected by the president and may be chosen to speak for two years successively. The lectures are supported by funds from the Fitzpatrick Trust which was established in 1901 by Agnes Letitia Fitzpatrick{{Cite web|url=http://www.apothecaries.org/fitzpatrick-and-monckton-copeman-lecture-2017/|title=Fitzpatrick and Monckton Copeman Lecture 2017 – The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries|website=www.apothecaries.org|language=en-GB}} with a £2,000 donation in memory of her physician husband Thomas Fitzpatrick.{{Cite news|url=https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/fitzpatrick-lecture-2018|title=FitzPatrick Lecture 2018|date=2018-01-22|work=RCP London|access-date=2018-06-23}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2P6ODAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|title=A History of Disease in Ancient Times: More Lethal than War|last=Norrie|first=Philip|publisher=Springer Nature|year=2016|isbn=978-3-319-28936-6|location=Switzerland|pages=47–48}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/fitzpatrick_factsheet.pdf|title=Fitzpatrick Trust|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104205733/https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/fitzpatrick_factsheet.pdf|archive-date=4 January 2015|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=23 June 2018|df=dmy-all}} Agnes was influenced by her husband's close friend, Sir Norman Moore, who persuaded her to choose history of medicine as a subject. Subsequently, Moore was credited with its idea and implementation.

The first two Fitzpatrick lectures were given by Joseph Frank Payne,{{Cite journal|last=Payne|first=Joseph Frank|date=27 June 1903|title=The FITZPATRICK LECTURES on the HISTORY of MEDICINE: Delivered in the Royal College of Physicians|url= |journal=Br Med J|language=en|volume=1|issue=2217|pages=1477–1480|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2217.1477|pmid=20760991|pmc=2513942|issn=0007-1447}}

whose request instigated history of medicine lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine and with whose support Sir William Osler established the History of Medicine Section.{{Cite book|title=The History of The Royal Society of Medicine|last=Hunting|first=Penelope|publisher=Royal Society of Medicine Press|year=2002|isbn=978-1853154973|pages=330–333}} He was succeeded by Sir Norman Moore, Leonard Guthrie and Clifford Allbutt and Raymond Crawfurd.{{Cite journal|last1=Dodds|first1=Charles|last2=Payne|first2=L.M.|date=1963|title=Sir Raymond Crawfurd|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=56|issue=Suppl 1|pages=19–24|issn=0035-9157|pmc=1896754|pmid=14044492|doi=10.1177/00359157630560S106}}

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