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Another ten years in education.

Opening remarks by the President, Sir John Walton: The Lloyd Roberts Lecture is one of the major events of the Society year. It is given in rotation at the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Medical Society of London and the Royal Society of Medicine, and this year it is our turn. For those of you who do not know who Lloyd Roberts was — he died in 1920, at which time he was the Consulting Obstetric Physician, a very modern term indeed, to Manchester Royal Infirmary because, although he practised throughout his professional life as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, he was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and was particularly interested in medical aspects of obstetrics and gynaecology. He was one of that long line of medical polymaths who distinguished British medical affairs in the last century and in the early part of this century in that he had a major interest in literary matters. Quite apart from publishing his very well known Students' Guide to the Practice of Midwifery, he also published a revised edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, and was responsible for writing a major work on The Scientific Knowledge of Dante. A great collector of art treasures, including a specially fine collection of mezzotints, glass and books, he was in many, many ways a man of outstanding breadth of interest and culture. One of the most interesting things that was said about Lloyd Roberts in a very long obituary after he died was that, even if he had died thirty years earlier, his biography would have had a very large sale. Hospital work done, he was to be found by midday standing, always standing, compact, alert, close cropped, by his consulting room fire with a glass of milk warming in the fender and, amongst the instruments on the mantelpiece, there were walnuts, which he cracked at intervals with explosive violence. These served for lunch. One of his most famous quotes, which apparently has always been remembered, was that he used to say he was not a consultant but ‘a general specialist, with a leaning towards women’, and his definition of gynaecology was ‘anything either curable or lucrative’. But everyone said that he was a born healer and it did people good merely to see him, so that he was clearly one of the most notable members of our profession of the day. Now, who could we have chosen better than Baroness Warnock to deliver this year's Lloyd Roberts Lecture? Educated at Lady Margaret Hall, subsequently Fellow and Tutor of Philosophy at St Hugh's College and then later Headmistress of Oxford High School for six years, she has chaired many special enquiries of particular interest to this profession, such as the Committee of Enquiry into Special Education. She served on the Advisory Committee on Animal Experiments as Chairman until recently and we know very well of her work in chairing the Committee of Enquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology. She has also found the time to write widely on Existentialism, Imagination and Education, and other topics. Now, if there has been an occasion when simultaneously a husband and wife have been respectively Head of House, one in Oxford and the other in Cambridge, then as a very new boy at Oxford it is not something which I personally have been aware. Interest in education makes it particularly fitting that she should have chosen tonight, following upon the lecture given in this series some fifteen years ago by Lord James of Rusholme, to talk about ‘Another ten years in education’.

The Therapeutic Influence of X Rays on Female Pelvic Disease

ArticlesThe Therapeutic Influence of X Rays on Female Pelvic DiseaseAn Introductory Address Delivered before the North London Medical Society, Dec. 13th, 1917John PhillipsJohn PhillipsHon. Physician to Her Majesty Queen Mary, Consulting Obstetric Physician, King's College Hospital, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics in King's CollegeSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:14 Feb 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/are.1918.0080SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail About Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 22, Issue 11April 1918Pages: 333-364 Copyright © 1918, The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineFebruary 14,2014 Metrics Download PDF

Book Review The Student's Handbook of Gynecology . By George Ernest Herman, M.B., F.R.C.P., Lond.; F.R.C.S., Eng., Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital, Consulting Physician-Accoucher to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary, Late President of the Obstetrical Society of London and of the Hunterian Society, etc. Second edition, revised by the author, with additions by R. Drummond MaxWell, M.D., Lond.; F.R.C.S.,

Book Review The Student's Handbook of Gynecology . By George Ernest Herman, M.B., F.R.C.P., Lond.; F.R.C.S., Eng., Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital, Consulting Physician-Accoucher to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary, Late President of the Obstetrical Society of London and of the Hunterian Society, etc. Second edition, revised by the author, with additions by R. Drummond MaxWell, M.D., Lond.; F.R.C.S.,

Obituary.

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & GynaecologyVolume 23, Issue 5 p. 310-317 Obituary. ALFRED LEWIS GALABIN M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., ALFRED LEWIS GALABIN M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. Consulting Obstetric Physician to Guy's Hospvtal.Search for more papers by this author ALFRED LEWIS GALABIN M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., ALFRED LEWIS GALABIN M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. Consulting Obstetric Physician to Guy's Hospvtal.Search for more papers by this author First published: May 1913 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.1913.tb12778.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume23, Issue5May 1913Pages 310-317 RelatedInformation

Book Review Difficult Labour . By G. Ernest Herman, M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital, etc. With 180 illustrations. New and enlarged edition, with added chapters on retroversion of the gravid uterus and puerperal eclampsia. New York: William Wood & Co. 1910.

Book Review Difficult Labour . By G. Ernest Herman, M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital, etc. With 180 illustrations. New and enlarged edition, with added chapters on retroversion of the gravid uterus and puerperal eclampsia. New York: William Wood & Co. 1910.

Book Review The Student's Handbook of Gynecology . By George Ernest Herman, M. B. (Lond.), F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital; Consulting Physician-Accoucheur to the Royal Maternity Charity and to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary; Late President of the Obstetrical Society of London and of the Hunterian Society; formerly Physician to the General Lying-in Hospital and Examiner in

Book Review The Student's Handbook of Gynecology . By George Ernest Herman, M. B. (Lond.), F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital; Consulting Physician-Accoucheur to the Royal Maternity Charity and to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary; Late President of the Obstetrical Society of London and of the Hunterian Society; formerly Physician to the General Lying-in Hospital and Examiner in

Book Review Diseases of Women . A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. By George Ernest Herman, M.B. Lond., F.R.C.P. Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital; Consulting Physician-Accoucheur to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary; Late President of the Obstetrical Society of London and of the Hunterian Society, etc. With 265 illustrations. New York: William Wood and Company. 1907.

Book Review Diseases of Women . A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. By George Ernest Herman, M.B. Lond., F.R.C.P. Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital; Consulting Physician-Accoucheur to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary; Late President of the Obstetrical Society of London and of the Hunterian Society, etc. With 265 illustrations. New York: William Wood and Company. 1907.

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Book reviewed in this article:Wurmfoutsatzentzöndung und Frauenleiden (Appendicitis and Diseases of Women). By Dr. Theodor Landau.A Manual of Midwifery. By Alfred Lewis Galabin, M.A., M.D. (Cantab), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Consulting Obstetric Physician to Guy's Hospital; late President of the Obstetrical Society of London, etc. Sixth edition; illustrated with 329 engravings;