Work consisting of speeches, orations, or written statements, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons. These are different from a LECTURE that is usually delivered to classes for instructional purposes.
    

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The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.

John the Baptist preaching to a crowd at the river Jordan. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.

Moses speaks to his people in the land of the Moab, in the fortieth year of Exodus. Etching by C. Mosley, 1747, after A. Cheron.

Wellcome Collection : you are invited to join the Ephemera Society tour of the exhibitions Medicine Man & War and Medicine on Tuesday 20 January 2009 at 2pm : Stephen Lowther, Head of Ephemera collection, will give an introductory talk on the material held in the library collection.

Medical education, character, and conduct : introductory addresses, delivered to students of medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1855-1866-1882 / by W.T. Gairdner.

Introductory lecture to a course on forensic medicine : delivered in the Anatomical Theatre of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, November 1831 / by George Burrows.

Address to the students of St. Thomas's hospital / delivered at the opening of the session, October 1st, 1874 by William Mac Cormac.

An introductory lecture on the rise and progress of midwifery, from the earliest period to the present time : delivered at the Central Infirmary, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, May the 30th, 1828 / by Michael Ryan.

On continuous molecular changes, more particularly in their relation to epidemic diseases : being the oration delivered at the 80th anniversary of the Medical Society of London / by John Snow.

The Harveian oration, 1880 : delivered June 25th / by John W. Ogle.

Human physiognomy explain'd: in the Crounian Lectures on muscular motion. For the year MDCCXLVI. Read before the Royal Society / By James Parsons, M.D. and F.R.S. Being a supplement to the Philosophical Transactions for that year.

On the interdependence of science and the healing art : being the Presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool, 1896 / [Joseph Lister].

The Hunterian Oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on February 14th, 1927 / by Sir Berkeley Moynihan in the presence of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles.

The differentiation of mankind into racial types / by Prof. Arthur Keith.

Jenner and his impact on medical science : [lecture given at the bicentenary meeting held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on May 17] / by Sir Edward Mellanby.

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On the interdependence of science and the healing art : being the Presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool, 1896 / [Joseph Lister].

The Hunterian Oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on February 14th, 1927 / by Sir Berkeley Moynihan in the presence of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles.

The differentiation of mankind into racial types / by Prof. Arthur Keith.

Jenner and his impact on medical science : [lecture given at the bicentenary meeting held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on May 17] / by Sir Edward Mellanby.

Apoptosis, past and future / John Kerr.