Author: HOME (Sir Everard):
Title: The Hunterian Oration in Honour of Surgery, and in Memory of those Members by Whose Labours its Celebrity Has Been Advanced: Instituted by the Executors of John Hunter. Delivered in the Theatre of the College, February, 14, 1822, And published at the Request of the Council, By Sir Everard, Bart. V. P. R. S. F. A S. Serjeant Surgeon to the King....
Description: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.., 1822. 4to , 260 x 197 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 36, quarter red morocco, marbled boards, a very good copy with the contemporary ownership inscription of "Charles Noon FRCS/f Norwich" on the upper margin of the front paste-down end-paper, and on both end-papers, in a different hand, some genealogical notes about the relationship of the Hunters and Baillies. From Wikipedia: "The Hunterian Oration is a lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, named in honour of pioneering surgeon John Hunter and held on his birthday, 14 February, each year. The oration was founded in 1813 by the executors of the will of surgeon John Hunter, his nephew Dr Matthew Baillie, and his brother-in-law Sir Everard Home, who made a gift to the Royal College of Surgeons of England to provide an annual oration and a dinner for Members of the Court of Assistants and others. In 1853, the oration and dinner became biennial; it is held on alternate years in rotation with the Bradshaw Lecture." The surgeon Sir Everard Home (1756–1832) persuaded Pitt's govenment to fund the purchase of the collection made by his brother-in-law, John Hunter (1756–1832) , of anatomical and pathological specimens. Sir Everard gave the first Hunterian Oration in 1811. For the record, I located 12 copies in OCLC: In the UK, Natural History Museum, Wellcome Collection, Oxford, Bristol: in the USA: New York Academy of Medicine, Georgia, Harvard, Texas; Australia: National Library, New South Wales, South Australia; and Paris Natural Hlistory Museum.

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