Whither the Prosser White Oration?

The article focuses on the correspondence of a reader of the periodical "Clinical & Experimental Dermatology," related to dermatologist Robert Prosser White's oration. The annual oration set up by Prosser White when he was president of the London Dermatological Society was delivered almost annually from 1921 until 1989. The oration was funded from the proceeds of a large sum of money bequeathed by Presser White to the Society, and his name was added posthumously to the annual oration. The decision to change the name of the Annual Oration from the Prusser White Oration to the Annual Oration of the St John's Hospital Dermatological Society in no way reflects any diminution of' the contribution which Prosser White has made to occupational medicine and to dermatology.