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The
Harvey Society was founded April 1, 1905,
by 13 New York scientists and physicians,
who met at 9 East 74th Street, the home
of physiologist Graham Lusk. The stated
purpose of the Society was to forge a “closer
relationship between the purely practical
side of medicine and the results of laboratory
investigation.” The group included
Samuel J Meltzer, William H Park, Edward
K Dunham, James Ewing, Frederick S Lee,
Christian Herter, Simon Flexner, George
B Wallace, Theodore C Janeway, Phoebus A
Levene, and Eugene L Opie. The meeting was
also attended by John J Abel, a noted pharmacologist
from The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine.
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Founding
Officers:
Graham
Lusk, President
Simon Flexner, Vice President
George B Wallace, Secretary
Frederick S Lee, Treasurer
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The Harvey Society lectures reflect “the
evolution of physiology and physiological
chemistry into biochemistry and the development
of molecular biology from the roots of bacteriology
and biochemistry” in this century.
One of the important facets of this lecture
series is that they are published annually.
The Harvey Society is continuing to achieve
its primary goal of providing “a series
of distinguished lectures in the life sciences”
and, in fact, “there are a few lectures
of such distinction delivered uninterruptedly
over a period of more than 70 years in any
other city in the world.”(1)
Harvey
once wrote, “My trust is in my love
of truth and the candour of cultivated minds.”
For as long as those who are invited to
deliver a Harvey Lecture heed these words,
they honour the name of William Harvey,
and the Harvey Society of New York has a
high and noble future.(1)
Read
the Harvey Society Constitution.
(1)
Exerpted from an article in Perspectives
in Biology and Medicine, Summer 1978, pages
524–535, by AG Bearn and DG James.
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