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Annals of medical history . oncept of thetheory of infection itself must be charac-terized as purely modern, since, after all,it owes the first clear conception to Giro-Iamo Fracastoro (1546) finding in IgnatiusPhilip Semmelweis and Joseph Lister itsgreat, genially intuitive, practical inter-preters, while Louis Pasteur and RobertKoch were its master investigators alongpurely scientific lines and thus the bestequipped to rede its riddles. 3 Referring to the Byzantine family which oc-cupied the throne of Constantinople during 1057—1059 and 1081-1185. A PATRONAL FESTIVAL FOR THOMAS WILLIS (1621-
Annals of medical history . oncept of thetheory of infection itself must be charac-terized as purely modern, since, after all,it owes the first clear conception to Giro-Iamo Fracastoro (1546) finding in IgnatiusPhilip Semmelweis and Joseph Lister itsgreat, genially intuitive, practical inter-preters, while Louis Pasteur and RobertKoch were its master investigators alongpurely scientific lines and thus the bestequipped to rede its riddles. 3 Referring to the Byzantine family which oc-cupied the throne of Constantinople during 1057—1059 and 1081-1185. A PATRONAL FESTIVAL FOR THOMAS WILLIS (1621-1675) WITH REMARKS BY SIR WILLIAM OSLER, BART., By HENRY VIETS, NEWTON, MASS. A YEARLY festival in honour ofa medical worthy is certainlyan occasion of note, especially ifit has been held annually forone hundred and eighty three years, and isstill observed in England, in spite of theWar. Last fall, news came to Oxford, Eng-land, from the little village of Fenny Strat-ford, Buckinghamshire/that the exercises in. Martins Church, Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire, Englandin 1731 in honor of Thomas Willis by his grandson. honor of Thomas Willis would be held asusual on November fourteenth and thatSir William Osier would deliver the ora-tion of the day. I was fortunately able toattend this exercise and I am sure that ashort account of the proceeding would beof interest to some of the readers of theAnnals of Medical History. The festival had its beginnings in 1734,three years after Browne Willis had built alittle- parish church in his home village, illmemory of his grandfather, and dedicated ri8 it to St. Martin. It was so dedicated be-cause Thomas Willis had lived in St. Mar-tins Lane, London, had died on St. Mar-tins Day and had acquired his wealth andfame as a seventeenth century practitionerin the Royal Parish of St. Martins-in-the-Fields. The fortune fell to his the life of Browne Willis, a festivalwasheld annually in honor of his grand-father. When
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