Key Articles from the Archives

A collection of thoughts on the surgical life, from the Journal's beginning through to the present day.

The George Adlington Syme Oration: The Master Surgeon

F. Wood Jones
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1935.tb02654.x (Volume 5 Issue 1 (July 1935) - p 34-47)

The Hamilton Russell Memorial Lecture: The Romance Of Surgery

Ernest W. Hey Groves
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1936.tb02726.x (Volume 5 Issue 4 (April 1936) - p 333-349)

The Progress of Surgery, with Especial Reference to Intracranial Surgery

Sir Hugh Cairns
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1948.tb06326.x (Volume 18 Issue 1 (July 1948) - p 3-12)

The Surgery of Hernia - Hamilton Russell's Contribution

Julian Taylor
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1949.tb03672.x (Volume 19 Issue 1 (August 1949) - p 10-18)

The George Adlington Syme Oration on Making Inaugural Orations

Sir James Learmonth
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1955.tb05090.x (Volume 24 Issue 3 (February 1955) - p 172-180)

The Roman Horace – His Health and His Poetry

Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1959.tb03818.x (Volume 29 Issue 1 (August 1959) - p 9-12)

Speech and Speakers

Sir Robert Menzies
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1964.tb03865.x (Volume 33 Issue 3 (February 1964) - p 161-168)

Trigger-Happy and Circumspect Types

Lee Kwan Yew
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1973.tb07316.x (Volume 43 Issue 2 (September 1973) - p 89-92)

The George Adlington Syme Oration: What Puts the Surge in Surgery?

J. Englebert Dunphy
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1974.tb03896.x (Volume 44 Issue 4 (November 1974) - p 313-320)

The George Adlington Syme Oration: Syme and the Surgeon's Image

Sir Benjamin Rank
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1977.tb04289.x (Volume 47 Issue 3 (June 1977) - p 266-275)

The George Adlington Syme Oration: Privileges and Responsibilities of Royal Colleges

Sir Rodney Smith
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1977.tb04323.x (Volume 47 Issue 4 (August 1977) - p 432-437)

The Gordon Bell Memorial Lecture: From Edinburgh, an Academic Surgeon

H. A. F. Dudley
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05951.x (Volume 51 Issue 3 (June 1981) - p 247-250)

Medical Research and Medical Practice: New Perspectives on the 'Town' Versus 'Gown' Dilemma

G J.V. Nossal
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1984.tb05437.x (Volume 54 Issue 6 (December 1984) - p 505-508)

General Surgery and the Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

Claude H. Organ Jr
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1985.tb00866.x (Volume 55 Issue 2 (April 1985) - p 91-94)

Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture: Distinguished Australian Military Surgeons

B. A. Smithurst
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb01666.x (Volume 59 Issue 9 (September 1989) - p 731-741)

The Fragmentation of General Surgery

Reginald S. A. Lord
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1992.tb05458.x (Volume 62 Issue 3 (March 1992) - p 175-180)

Surgery: A Suitable Career for Women?

Averil Mansfield
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1996.tb00751.x (Volume 66 Issue 12 (December 1996) - p 787-790)

The Surgeon as a Leader in Cancer Care

Murray F. Brennan
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1998.tb04653.x (Volume 68 Issue 10 (October 1998) - p 691-697)

Leadership in surgery

Sir Peter J. Morris
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-1433.2003.02587.x (Volume 73 Issue 4 (April 2003) - p 173-176)