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Meath 'Hospital

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County Dublin Infirmary.

MEDICAL HISTORY

OF THE

MEATH HOSPITAL

AND

COUNTY DUBLIN INFIRMARY,

From its foundation in 1753 down to the present time ;

INCLUDING

33iogvnpfj{cal ^Iictclics of tfte burgeons anU T^^psicians taf)o scrbclJ on its ^tnff ;

WITH THE NAMES OF

APPRENTICES, RESIDENT PUPILS, CLINICAL CLERKS, AND PRIZEMEN;

ALSO

ALL STUDENTS WHO STUDIED AT THE HOSPITAL,

from; thk yfar isas.

BY

LAMBERT HEPENSTAL ORMSB Y, A.B , M.D., Uniy. Dub. ; F.R.C S. ;

HKMniR KINO AND QUBKn’S COLLEGB OF FnTBICIANS, IRKLAND ;

BURORON TO THE MSATU HOSPITAL AND COUNTY DUBLIN INFIBUART ;

SURORON TO THE NATIONAL CHILDRIN’S HOBPITAL, DUBLIN ;

FKLLOW OF THK ROYAL MKDICO-CHIRUROICAL BOCIRTY, LONDON ;

HRHBP.B OF THR CLINICAL SOCIETY, LONDON ;

FELLOW OF Til?: ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, IBELAND ;

LATE MEUBBR COURT OF BXAIilXBKS BOYAL OOLLEOE OF BUKGBONS, IBELAND, ETC.

DUBLIN:

FANNIN & CO., 41 GRAFTON-STREET. LONDON; BAILLIERE, TINDALL, AND COX.

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J. Atkinson & Co., Peintees, 72 Gea-eton-steket.

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

THE

HISTORY OF THE MEATH HOSPITAL.

DEDICATED

TO ITS STUDENTS, PAST AND PRESENT.

FT^jO the past students, in the belief that these pages will recall, with pleasant memories, the early efforts that led to success in after life : And to the present students, in the hope that the achievements recorded of their past teachers may prove a stimulus to earnest work, whereby they alone, too, may attain success and maintain the fame of the time-honoured Institution we dl cherish.

PREFACE.

HE foregoing pages were written by me in the hope that past students of the Hospital might take an interest in the Institution in which they derived the first impressions of their profession. Although scattered in all parts of the world, old “ Meath” men seem to have this distinctive character about them, that the memories and associations of their student life in the Hospital among their old teachers not only seem never to be forgotten, but are remembered by them with feelings of affection and gratitude.

The materials for compiling this History have been derived from various sources, viz., the old i\[inute Books of the Hospital, the perusal of old newspapers and Hospital Reports, Almanacks of the present and past century, perusal of biogi’aphical works and histories in the Libraries of the College of Surgeons, Trinity College, Dublin, the College of Physicians, the Royal Irish Academy, the National Library of Ireland, the Public Record Office of Ireland, as well as the exhaustive History of the Royal College of burgeons by Sir Charles A. Cameron, who, being an

PHEJACE.

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old Meath Hospital student, most cheerfully allowed me to (j[Uote from his work respecting the biographies of many of the staff and other interesting facts.

In a work of the kind, which required so much attention and research regarding dates, etc., it is just possible that a few mistakes and omissions may occur here and there. I feel sure, however, that every old student will excuse my shortcomings, knowing the number of interruptions I must necessarily have had owing to the numerous engagements of a large and increa- sing practice. For the composition of the biographies, and for the opinions expressed in the biographical sketches and other parts of the work, I am alone responsible.

In publishing the students’ names from 1838, I considered fifty years would be sufficient, as it would include the majority of the students now living who studied at the Hospital. There are many old students, however, still living and in good health who studied at the Hospital long prior to this date, such as Mr. Andrew Young, Monaghan ; Dr. Henry Boxwell, Wexford ; Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, Dublin; Dr. Johnson, Kilkenny; Dr. Busteed, Castle Gregory ; Dr. Edward Stoker, Dublin ; Dr. Rodgers, Dublin ; SirRobt. Kane ; Dr. Lightbourne, Newry, etc.

The directory of names at the end of the work only include those, with a few others, who notified their names and present addresses in answer to my letter in Lancet and British Medical Journal asking for the information.

In conclusion, I must offer my best thanks to my colleagues one and all, and to many other friends, for affording me valuable information respecting the past history of the Institution. Also to my friend Dr. James Craig I am particulaz’ly indebted, for kindly reading over the proof sheets as they passed through the press.

92 Mekiuon-squaee, West, Duulix.

December 3 1st, 1887.

CONTENTS.

Faoe.

Armei of the Hospital . . ■ • ■ > ’

Dedication . . . . • • • • • • . . o

I’reface . . • • • • • • • • . . 0

Contents . . . . • • • • • • . . S

Index to Biographies . . . . . • ■ • . . 9

List of Illustrations . . . . . . • . ..10

View of the Meath H.jspital in 1771 . . . . . . 11

Present Life Governors . . . . . . . . ..12

Present Members of the Staff .. .. .. ..14

Present Members of Managing Committee .. .. ..Id

List of the Physicians and Surgeons to the Meath Hospital since its institution in 1753 .. .. .. .. .. 16

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . ..17

Apprentice System at the Meath Hospital . . . . . . 30

Names of Apprentices of different Surgeons .. .. 33-47

History of the Inauguration of the Prizes, 1831 . . . . 48

Prizemen of the Hospital since 1855 Surgical Resident Pupils since 1845 . .

Medical Clinical Clerks since 1845

Detailed list of the Staff, with dates of appointment, from foundation of Hospital, 1753, to the present Detailed lists of the Apothecaries of the Hospital, from 1796 Detailed list of Secretaries from 1796 Detailed list of Matrons and Lady Superintendents, 1800 Early Rules of the Hospital, passed by the Medical Board, for the guidance of the Medical Officers, 1776 Rules of the Hospital when it moved to its present site in 1822 Biographies of the Physicians of the Hospital, from its foundation to the present

Biographies of the Surgeons of the Hospital, from its foundation to the present

Biography of .John James Parr, Apothecary The appointment of Clinical Assistant Physicians Account of Meat'i Hospital Annual Dinner Annals of the Hospital . .

Names of aU Students who studied at the Meath Hospital from 1838 !

Act of IJarliament constituting the Hospital the Co. Dublin Infirmary Names of all ciualified Students of the Hospital, who have notified their names and addresses to the Author Errata

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lOGRAPHlES.

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Page.

Barker, Francis

.. 105

Mapletoft, Henry

.. 168

Bell, Thomas

.. 103

Mayne, Robert St. John

.. 231

Brooke, Thomas

. . 89

McBride, David

.. 153

Boate, Redmond

.. 151

Mills, Janies

.. 168

Bryan, Daniel

.. 102

Moore, John William

.. 147

Cheyne, John

.. 112

Moore, William

.. 254

Collis, Maurice, I.

.. 201

O’Brien, George

.. 174

Collis, Maurice Henry, II. . . 211

Ormsby, Lambert H.

.. 232

Cooke, Daniel

.. 94

Owens, George B., Sir

. . 255

Cullen Edmund

.. 101

Parr, John James

..241

Craig, James

.. 251

Patten, William

. . 91

Crampton, Philip, Sir

.. 183

Porter, William H.

.. 196

Cunningham, Alexander . . 150

Porter, George H., Sir

.. 209

Dease, Richard

.. 182

Read, Israel

.. 171

Deaso, William

.. 180

Richards, Solomon

.. 178

Donaldson, John

.. 91

Roney, Patrick Cusack

.. 175

Egan, Thomas

.. 108

Roney, Cusack

.. 190

Evory, Thomas

.. 97

Roney, Thomas

.. 193

Fleury, John Charles

.. 91

Rynd, Francis

.. 206

Foot, Arthur Wynne

.. 146

Scott, James

.. 177

Graves, Robert James

.. 122

Smyly, Josiah

.. 203

Harkan, Patrick

.. 115

Smyly, Philip Crampton

.. 218

Ilawkshaw, Henry

.. 167

Stokes, Whitley, I.

.. 118

Hepburn, William J.

.. 239

Stokes, William, II.

.. 129

Hewson, Thomas

.. 192

Stokes, William, III., Sir

.. 222

Hopkins, Francis

. . 95

Stronge, James W.

.. 223

Hudson, Alfred

.. 140

Todderiek, Geo. Frank

.. 110

Hutchinson, Francis

.. 90

Vance, William

.. 1G9

Ledwich, Thomas

.. 215

Wharton, James H.

.. 216

Lees, Cathcart

.. 137

White, Miehael

.. 170

Leimon, Edward E.

.. 251

White, Robert P.

.. 228

Lindley, William

.. 170

Wilson, Benjamin

.. 178

Macnamara, Rawdon,

I. . . 194

Winter, Arthur

.. 170

Macnamara, Rawdon,

II. .. 200

Paoe.

View of the Meath Hospital as it was a century ago, 1771,

Meath Hospital in 1876 . .

Picture of the Meath Hospital in 1822, with some of the past Members of the Staff . . . . . ,

Likeness of Dr. Graves from Statue in College of Physicians „ Dr. WiUiam Stokes do. do.

Portrait of Arthur Wynne Foot „ John Wm. Moore

,, David M'Brido, one of the original Surgeons, who founded the Hospital in 1753 ,, Josiah Smyly. .

„ Sir George Porter

„ James Henry Wharton ..

,, Philip Crampton Smyly . .

, , Rawdon Macnamara

,, Lambert Hepenstal Ormsby

,, William J. Hepburn

Group of Hospital Officials, with Assistant Physicians Menu Card of Annual Diimer, 1887, with Vignettes of present Members of Staff . .

\icw of the Meath Hospital as it will appear in 1888, with the new “ Barber " wing completed

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OF THE

EATH

|4ospital

AS IT WAS A CENTURY AGO, 1771.

Foimdation Stono laid by Lord Brabazou on the C'ooiiibo, 10th Oct., 1770 (Tlio present site of the Coonibc Lying-in Hospital).

§'Ksent §ift ©otenors.

1c.x=0ffic{o (lUiobemors.

The Lord Primate The Lord Chancellor

Archbishop of Dublin Rector of St. Peter’s Parish

Uife CSobtrnots anb €5obevn£SSCs.*

Her Majesty the Queen.

His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales.

The Most Hon. the Marquis of Headfort

The Eight Hon. the Earl of Dartrey, k.p.

The Eight Hon. the Earl of Milltown

The Eight Hon. Viscount Monck,

G.C.M.G.

The Eight Hon. Viscount Pow- erscourt, k.p.

The Eight Hon. Lord Ardilaun,

D.L.

The Eight Hon. Lord Dunsany,

D.L.

The Eight Hon. Lord Langford,

D.L.

Sir John Bari'ington, d.l.

Sir Edward 0. Guinness, Bart.,

D.L.

Sir Edward Synge Hutchinson, Bart.

Sir Geo. TI. Porter, d.l., f.r.c.s. Sir William Stokes, f.r.c.s. George Alexander, Esq., j.p. Miss Alexander Arthur Andrews, Esq.

Mrs. Arthur Andrews George Andrews, Esq.

James C. Bennett, Esq.

Mrs. Blythe Mrs. G. Bookey Miss Georgiana E. Bookey Major Robert H. Borrowes, d.l. Cheyne Brady, Esq.

Miss Brooke

Vere Ward Brown, Esq.

Wm. Denis Browne, Esq.

Eev. R. W. Buckley, d.d. Charles G. Burke, Esq., j p. Eev. Joseph Carson, d.d. Montague Chapman, Esq., d.l.,

J.p.

E. C. B. Clayton, Esq.

Sir Henry Cochrane, j.p.

James C. Colvill, Esq.

Matthew P. D’Arcy, Esq., d.l. Wellington Darley, Esq. Raymond de la Poer, Esq., j.p. David Drummond, Esq., j.p. Hamilton Drummond, Esq. George Ellis, Esq., m.d.

Miss Eisner

Wm. E. Evans, Esq., m.b. Adam S. Findlater, Esq., b.a. John Findlater, Esq., j.p.

Mrs. John Findlater

• Each contributing the sum of £21 or upwards to tho funds

of the Hospital.

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Thomas Fitzgerald, Esq., j.p. Arthur Wynae hoot. Esq., m.d. Kobert Fowler, Esq., d.l.

Mrs. Fuller

Robert Gardner, Esq., j.p. Thomas Gerrard, Esq., d.l.

Dr. William J. Gibson John Gilbert, Esq.

Edward R. Goodlatte, Esq. Stephen Gordon, Esq.

Richard R. Greening, Esq. Thomas M. Greer, Esq.

Miss Gerti’ude Hamilton Ion Trant Hamilton, Right Hon. D.L.

Samuel E. Hamilton, Esq., j.p. Mrs. Samuel E. Hamilton John Hatchell, Esq., m.a., d.l. William Hayes, Esq.

Frederick Hugh Henry, Esq., J.p.

E. A. P. Hobday, Esq., r.h.a. Edward M. Hodgson, Esq.

Miss L. Jackson

George N. Jacob, Esq.

William B. Jacob, Esq.

Rev. M. W. Jellett, m.a., ll.d.

F. C. Kelly, Esq., j.p.

M. Keogh, Esq.

Rt. Hon. Colonel King-Harman,

M.P.

J. J. Lalor, E.sq.

Nicholas Lynch, E.sq.

Miss Luby

Rev. Charles E A. M ‘Comas Henry M'Comas, Esq.

Herbert Wm. M'Comas, Esq. William M'Comas, Esq.

Mrs. William M'Comas Andrew M'Cullagh, Esq.

Robert J. Martin, Esq.

George Mitchell, Esq.

John W. Moore, Esq., m.d. Marcus Tertius Moses, Esq. Mrs. M. T. Moses Mrs. Hamilton O’Hara

L. Hepenstal Ormsby, Esq.,

F.R.O.S.

Miss A. C. Parker Benjamin T. Patterson, Esq. Henry Pattison, Esq.

Mrs. Charles Pease E. W. Percival, Esq.

Capt. Wm. Henry Porter Mrs. George Posnett Thomas Talbot Power, Esq. John T. Purser, Esq.

Mrs. Arthur G. Riall Thomas W. Sandes, Esq., j.p. Joseph Shaw, Esq.

M. John Smyly, Esq.

Josiah Gilbart Smyly, Esq. Philip C. Smyly, Esq., m.d.,

F.R.C.S.

Philip C. Smyly, Esq., jun. William J. Smyly, Esq., m.d. Edward Webber Smyth, Esq. Ambrose Stokes, Esq.

Frederick Stokes, Esq. j.p.

Mrs. Frederick Stokes George Symes, Esq.

Mrs. George Symes Gervas L. Taylor, Esq.

Miss Tyrrell

Gustavus Rochford Wade, Esq. George Walpole, Esq.

James Weir, Esq.

James H. Wharton, Esq., f.r c.s. John Alexander Wilson, E-sq. Miss Winter E. AVright, Esq., ll.d.

Miss Wright

William Geale Wybrants, Esq.,

M.A., J.p.

frfsent Officials cf t|f fospital.

^i)pstcians.

Arthur Wynne Foot, m.d., univ. dubl. ; f.k.q.o.p.i. John Willia'U Moore, m.d., univ. dubl. ; f.k.q.o.p.i.

^ u t g£ 0 n s .

Sir George H. Porter, d.l., m.d., m.ch. {Eonorit Causa) univ. dubl. ; F.R.o.s.i. ; Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland ; Sur- geon to Simpson’s Hospital ; Consulting Surgeon, Dr. Steevens’ Hospital, Coombe Lying-in Hospital, St. Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital, and National Children’s Hospital.

James H. Wharton, a.m., m.b., univ. dubl. ; f.r.c.s i. ; l.k.q.c.p.i.; Surgeon to Cork-street Fever Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables, and Consult. Surg. to Whitworth Hosp., Drumcondra. Philip Crampton Smyly, m.d., univ, dubl. ; f.r.c.s.i. ; l.k.q.c.p.i. Eawdon Macnamara, Senior Surg. to the Westmoreland Lock Hosp. Lambert H. Ormsby, f.r.c.s. ; m.d., univ. dubl. ; Surgeon to National Children’s Hospital.

W. J. Hepburn, f.r.c.s.e. ; l.k.q.c.p.i.; l.r.o.p.e. ; Surgeon to Con- valescent Home, Bray.

Bcstbent burgeon anb ^potficcarg.

Frank T. Porter Newell, a.b., m.b., univ. dubl.; l.r.c.s.i. ; l.a h. Demonstrator of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons.

virimtcal glssi'&tants to djc ^bpsici'ans.

Ldward Emmanuel Lennon, l.k.q.c.p.i.

James Craig, m.b., b.cii., univ. dub.

lilcsibcnt ^ecrctaiy.

Francis Penrose.

Uabg ^upcrmtenbent.

Miss Ellinor Lyons.

I^on. ©onsultmg (J^bstctiic ^Bbpstctan.

Lombe Atthill, Esq., m.d., f.k.q.c.p.i., Ex-Master Rotunda.

Solicitors. |^on. Strclptcct.

1). and T. Fitzgerald. J. Franklin Fuller, Esq., f.s.a.

i3ankcrs.

Royal Rank of Ireland.

^iaitiring

(21 IN numbee),

For conducting the affairs of the Hospital for the year ending 3 1 st March,

1888.

Elected 4th April, 1887 {^According to Act of Fartiament).

The Viscount Monck, g.c.m.o., Lord Lieutenant of the County Dublin, Charleville, Bray

The Viscount Powerscouit, k.p., Powerscourt, Bray Arthur Andrews, Esq., Newtown House, Blackrock George F. Brooke, Esq., d.l., j.p., Pickering, Celbridge John V. Cassidy, Esq., j.p., 53, Upper Mount-street Colonel Gerald K. Dease, j.p., Celbridge Adam S. Findlater, Esq., Uplands, Monkstown Sir Percy K. Grace, Bart, d.l., j.p., Boley, Monkstown.

Samuel E. Hamilton, Esq., j.p., Grosvenor Park, Eathmines William E. LaTouche, Esq., d.l., j.p., Fitzwilliam-place William M'Comas, Esq., The Grange, Kill Avenue, Monkstown Luke John M'Donnell, Esq., d.l., 38, Merrion-square, East L. Hepenstal Ormsby, Esq., f.r.c.s., 92, Merrion-squaro, West Sir George B. Owens, m.d., j.p., 126, Lower Baggot-street George Perry, Esq., t.c., 81, Harcourt-street

Sir George H. Porter, d.l., f.r.c.s. Surgeon to the Queen, 3, Merrion- square, North

Charles Sibthorpe, Esq., 36, Upper Lesson-street Thomas S. Sibthorpe, Esq., j.p., 29, Upper Leeson-street Philip C. Smyly, Esq., m.d., 4, Merrion-square, North Frederick Stokes, Esq., j.p., Oakhurst, Beckenham, Kent James H. Wharton, Esq., f.r.c.s., 28, Upper Merrion-street

LIST OF THE PHYSICIANS AND STJR&EONS TO THE MEATH HOSPITAL

SINCE ITS INSTITUTION IN 1753.

Physicians.

1764 — . tThomas Brooke.

1754 — . tFrancis Hutchinson.

1756-1770 - ♦William Patten. 1760-1767 - t John Donaldson. 1767-1786 - t John Charles Eleury. 1770-1781 - fUaniel Cooke. 1781-1785 - fErancis Hopkins.

1785- 1793 - tThomas Evory.

1786- 1788 - fEdmund Cullen. 1788-1803 - fDaniel Bryan. 1793-1806 - tThomas Bell. 1803-1809 - fErancis Barker.

1806-1818- *Thomas Egan. 1809-1811 - fGeo. Frank Todderick. 1811-1817- fJohn Cheyne.

1817- 1821- fPatrick Harkan.

1818- 1826 - f'rtTiitley Stokes. 1821-1843 - fEobert James Graves. 1826-1875 - fWilliam Stokes. 1843-1861 - fCathcart Lees. 1861-1871 - tAlfred Hudson.

1871 — - Arthur Wynne Foot. 1875 — - John William Moore.

Surgeons.

1763- 1782 - •Alex. Cunningham. 1753 — - fRedmond Boat.

1753 — - fDavid M'Bride.

1753- 1781 - *Henry Hawkshaw.

1764- 1784 - *James Mills.

1754- 1756 - fllenry Mapletoft.

1755- 1793 - *William Vance.

1756 — - fMichael White.

1767 — - fMr. Linley.

1777-1790 - ‘Arthur Winter. 1776-1795 - •Israel Read.

1781- 1802 - fGeorge O’Brien.

1782- 1813 - fPatrick Cusack Roney. 1784-1787 - ‘James Scott.

1787-1809 - •Benjamin Wilson. 1790-1819 - Solomon Richards. 1793-1798 - •William Dcase. 1795-1819 - ‘Richard D ease. 1798-1858 - ‘Philip Crampton. 1802-1849 - ‘Cusack Roney.

1809-1831 - ‘Thomas Hewsou. 1813-1825 - ‘Thomas Roney.

1819-1836 - *Rawdon Macnamara. 1819-1861 - ‘William Henry Porter. 1825-1852 - fMaurice Collie. 1831-1864 - ‘Josiah Smyly.

1836-1861 • ‘Francis R5-nd.

1849 — - Geo. Homidge Porter. 1851-1869 - ‘Maurice H. Collis.

1858 — - ‘Thomas Ledwich.

1858 — - James H. Wharton. 1861 — - Philip Crampton Smyly

1861 — - Rawdon Macnamara. 1864-1868 - fWilliam Stokes.

1868 — - ‘James H. Stronge.

1868- 1879 - ‘Robert P. White.

1869- 1871 - ‘Robert St. J. Mayne. 1872 — - Lambert II. Ormsby. 1879 — - WiUiam J. Hepburn.

‘ Bitd in OJice, f Rtfigftied.

INTRODUCTION.

N collecting niatei’ials for a History of the Meath M Hospital, I have been asked why I had undertaken a task that might not repay the trouble. I have replied that I cherish the Meath Hospital, as owing to it, in great measure, what professional success I have attained. It is, therefore, as a labour of love I have endea- voured, by all the industry and diligence I could command, to collect the scattered fragments of the History of the dear old Meath, dating, as it does, from an early period of the Georgian era. While sensible that I lack those literary quali- fications which are essential to digesting and presenting in an attractive form the mass of facts with which I have had to deal, yet I trust I have atoned for my shortcomings in this respect in having published the work at all; for small though it seems, yet the labour of collection was a task of real magnitude, from which a practising surgeon, with more time at his disposal than I have, might fairly shrink. During its existence, of nearly a century and a half, few hospitals have been more remarkable than the !Meath for sustained progressive work in the cause of suifering humanity, and the furtherance of medical skill and science ; and fewer still can boast a bead-roll of such illustrious names. To every old Meath man, no matter in what quarter of the globe his lot is cast, the memory of his clinical alma mater is endeared by the recollection of his student days, perhaps his early struggles, his hopes and fears, the sound teaching by example as well as precept, and above all, the unvarying kindness and encourage- ment he received from the teaching staff. I feel sure, therefore, that every member of the Meath Hospital, past and present, will

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appreciate my worlc, imperfect tlioiig’li it be, us the outcome of an earnest desire faitlifiilly to write tlie history of an institution for tlie prosperity of whicli they and I most deroutly long. Besides endeavouring to outline the achievements of some of the more distinguished !Meath Hospital men who have served on the staff, I have, from the year 1838 to the present, given an honoured niche to all who have entered its portals as students.

The hrst public notice of the Hospital is found in The Gentlc- wen and Citizens' Almanack, by John Watson, bookseller, in the year of our Lord, 1754, and 27th of George If., page 72, viz, : — “ The Meath Hospital on tlie Coombe was opened 2iid “March, 1753. Supported hitherto by a benefit play, some “benefactions, and annual subscriptions of several of the prin- “ cipal inhabitants of the Earl of Meath’s Liberty, and other well “ disposed persons who judged that an institution of this nature “ was much wanted in a part of the town remote from the city “hospitals, and greatly thronged with the industrious poor. “That it really was so has plainly appeared from the great “numbers who daily reap the benefit. The number of out- “ iiatientsto 29th Sept., 1753, was 4,095, and 12 interns have been “maintained, cared, and discharged. Messrs. Alex. Cunning- “ham, Eedmoud Boat, David M'Bride, and Henry Hawkshaw, “ Surgeons, attend daily in their turns, and all serve without fee “ or reward. Benefactions will be received by George Thwaites, “ at Cork Bridge, and Mr. Joseph Terry, in Braithwaite Street.”

It would appear that this Hospital was directly set going anu established by the exertions and benev’olence of medical men ; and this may be said of other similar institutions which were established about the same time, such as Dr. Steeven.s’ Hospital, Mercers Hospital, the Charitable Infirmary on Inn’s Quay (now Jervis Street Hospital), the Lj'ing-iu-Hoapital in George’s Lane (the precursor of the Botunda Hospital), St. Nicho- las’ Hospital in Francis Street, and the Hospital for Incurables.

A document prepared and presented to the Irish House of Commons by the Governors of the Meath Hospital, in 1773, supplements this brief sketch of its origin. From it wo

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gather that the surgeons and physicians had not only been put to a considerable private expense, but also that they had, with infinite industry and application, been the principal agents in providing funds for the erection of the Hospi- tal buildings. The records of the Hospital, scanty as they are for the first twenty years, lead to the conclusion that all deficiencies were guaranteed and made up by the medical men. The petition or memorial of 1773 further states that from the first the surgeons and physicians had served without fee or reward, and on the Hospital being placed on a somewhat permanent footing, by being constituted the County Dublin Infirmary, they deliberately gave up £100 (Irish currency) per annum. Treasury Grant, and their proportion of the County Presentment, to the Hospital funds. For this concession it was ordained that the medical and surgical staff should always have the power to appoint their successors on the staff. The Hospital still receives this £100 per annum, the salary of the medical staff, which, when the grant was first given, consisted of two physicians and six surgeons, as indeed it does at present.

The means adopted a century ago to raise funds for the support and maintenance of the Institution consisted in dividing the neigh- bourhood of the Hospital into wards or districts, and appointing a number of gentlemen in each district to receive subscriptions. There was also an annual benefit play and a dinner. Lotteries were at this time usually employed to raise money for public purposes. Thus the Guild of Merchants started their scheme to raise money to build the Exchange. By this and such like schemes a sum varying from £100 to £300 was raised annually for the favourite Hospital and Charity of the day, and in this way the Meath Hospital received several contributions. The present representatives of the corporate interests of our City, tlie Corpo- ration of Dublin, who hold their meetings in the building referred to, and which is now known as the City Hall, recognised the value of the Meath Hospital to the citizens by presenting for it, in 1867, a sum of £300 — this annual grant they have continued ever since. To the worthy successors of those who

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did not forgot to aid the Charity when building tho walls of the Old Exchange, our warmest thanks are due. We on our side can join in the statement made over one hundred years ago to their predecessors, that this Institution is free from all unworthy taint of sectarianism, that all creeds are respected within its walls, and that none are allowed to lord it over the otliers on the score of this or that religion.

In 1 769 the Governors of the Hospital, which had been removed a few years before into Skinner’s Alley, and thence into Earl Street (Meath Street), determined, in consequence of its ruinous condition and unsuitable character, to build a new Hospital. Exertions were consequently made to raise money. A piece of ground was bought upon the Coombe, and after various delays, on October 10th, 1770, Lord Brabazon, ancestor of the present Earl of Meath (after whom the Hospital was originally named), laid the first stone of what was the old Meath Hospital on the Coombe. This is now the Coombe Lying-in Hospital. The cost of this building was defrayed in part by a lottery prize of £1,000, and in part by a legacy bequeathed by Mrs. Lockwood, amounting to £600. This legacy was the cause of a prolonged dispute with the Hospital of St. Nicholas, whose Governors claimed it on their usurpation of the title of the “United Hospi- tals of St. Catherine’s and St. Nicholas’,” the legacy of £1,000 being left in the proportion of three-fourths to the former and one-fourth to the latter. After much correspondence and tlireatoned litigation, the matter was decided by a Committee of the Irish House of Lords in favour of the right of the Meath Hospital to tho three-fourths bequeathed to St. Catherine’s Hospital, there being no institution of the latter name in exist- ence at the date of the will, and the Meath Hospital being in St. Catherine’s Parish. Ultimately the money was paid to” the Meath, though the Hospital of St. Nicholas retained the usurped name of St. Catherine’s. One result of the dispute was to draw the attention of Parliament to the Hospital and its superior claims ; and in the same year, 1 7 74, it was by Act of I’arliamcnt constituted tho County Dublin Infirmary.

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The new Hospital now began to acquire celebrity as a Clinical School of Medicine and Surgery. Pupils attended for the instruction given at the Hospital, and as far as records show it was the first Hospital in Dublin to commence systematic clinical instruction.

The Hospital had many vicissitudes before it settled down in its present position in Heytesbury-street.

First on the 2nd of March, 1 753, it was opened on the Coombe, where it was intended to afford medical assistance to the working population in the Liberties. It was next removed to Skinner’s Alley in 1757 ; then to Meath Street in 1760; and to Earl Street in 1766. In 1770 the erection of a new building on the Coombe was commenced, and when it was completed the Hospital was removed to it. In 1816 the site of the present Hospital in the Long Lane, Heytesbury Street, was acquired at a cost of £1,126, and with the aid of a County Presentment of £4,788 the building was completed in 1822. On the 24th of December of the same year, the new Hospital was opened for the reception of patients. The reason the Hospital was moved from the Coombe to its present site, was because the Governors found that the building was limited in accommodation, and incapable of extension in any direction.

Encouraged by a timely gift of £6,000 from Thomas Pleasants, obtained through Mr. Eichards and Mr. Peile, they set about building the present Hospital on a piece of ground containing nearly two acres, which the Governors have since recently added to, and which was called “ The Dean’s Vineyard.” This site was purchased from the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick’s for a sum of £1,126, free of all rent. Of Mr. Pleasants’ money, £4,000 was available, and this sum was expended on the erec- tion of the central building. The remaining £2,000 was funded by his direction to procure an equivalent of medicine, and wine and other necessaries for cases requiring them. To complete the building £4,788 was granted by the County Dublin in 1820, and the rest was made up by donations and subscriptions from the general public. There was considerable delay in

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furnishing the building, and from the various minute boohs it appears many communications passed between the medical and surgical staff and the standing committee on the subject.

The Hospital was duly finished in the year 1822, and was opened for the reception of the sick poor on the 24th of Decem- ber in the same year, when the patients were transported from the Old Hospital on the Coombe to the new building under great difficulties. The late William Henry Porter and Maurice Collis, both surgeons of the Hosjiital, undertook to superintend the removal of the patients, which they did, carrying tliem wrapped in blankets in long baskets made for the purpose. During the time of removal, which occupied some hours, a furious storm arose, and on the return journey they were glad to jirotect their own heads from the flying slates with the empty baskets.

In the year 1826, owing to a severe epidemic of fever, sheds were erected in the grounds of the Hospital, and a large subsidy was granted by Government for the cost of maintenance of the fever patients. On the subsidence of the epidemic it was rightly judged by the medical board, that it would be prudent to set apart special wards for the immediate reception of fever cases at all times, that epidemics might thus be checked in their onset, and much loss of life in all classes of the community prevented.

This was represented to the Government of the day by the Surgeon-General (Sir Philip Crampton) and the Physicians, Drs. Graves and Stokes, and it resulted in an annual grant being obtained lor this purpose. The grant, which dates from the 5th of November, 1 827, used to vary according to the amount of fever, but has of late years been commuted into a fixed sum of £ 600 a year. This amount was secured to us after a long inquiry, mainly on the ground that these fever wards make our Hospital moie complete as an educational establishment for the training of medical men for the various public services at home and abroad.

Additions have been made to the Hospital from time to time, at either the partial or entire expense of the Medical Board. The Theatre was erected in 1830, its cost being defrayed by a

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legacy of £500, entnistcil to tlio late Professor Macnamara Ly a patient, for charitable and useful purposes, and by a donation of £100 from Mr. Crampton, and £50 from each of the other members of the staff, except Mr. Roney. The Dispensary was built at a cost of £330, the Medical Staff contributing £100. Other additions have been made in memory of our departed colleagues, such as tlie Collis Wards, and tlie Smyly Memorial Ward for Children, tlie former having been opened in 1852, and the latter in 1865 — a mode of honouring the dead of our profession, which commends itself to the common sense of man- kind as more suitable than statues of marble and bronze.

All these additional wards, as well as a Convalescent Home at Bray, presented by Lord and Lady Brabazon (now the Earl and Countess of Meath), the Gervas L. Taylor Ward, so named, in 1881, in commemoration of Mr. Taylor’s munificence, the endow- ments in memory of Surgeons William H. Porter and Francis Rynd, the Sandford Bed, and two beds maintained by the Society of Friends, «ic., are subject to the same impartial rules as to religious toleration with the rest of the Hospital. The Standing Committee will gladly accept, with thanks, any similar endowments or legacies from former pupils or others, on the condition that their rules, which secure freedom to all, with offence to none, are not departed from.

Among the not very numerous bequests which have been made to this Hospital, I may mention one, by the Right lion. James Grattan, of nearly £5,000, the interest of which we receive from his Executors, In memory of this benefaction, the large square ward on the surgical landing has been named the Grattan Ward ; and so this Hospital, it will be observed, has grown up to its present state by successive stages of develop- ment and growth, both as a house for the relief of the sick and suffering, and as a centre of education of a very high standard. This, no doubt, has been brought about by the com- bined energy and benevolence of the lay and medical governors, at times aided by the princely munificence of those who, possessed of wealth, knew how to give their thousands with a

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liberal hand. Again, the tender regard of friends and relatives has assisted in raising up lasting memorials in the Hospital to departed worth. As a building, it is efficient, but by no means incapable of improvement. As a public charity’’ it admits, nay, loudly calls for extension, for its walls are not large enough, its wards not capacious enough, to contain one half of the patients who seek admission within them. Long ago fever cases were allowed to enter the Medical Wards in the main building, and were mixed indiscriminately with the other cases m these wards. However, owing to the advance of science and our knowledge of fevers, we came to the conclusion that our fever department should be established in a separate and isolated building, constructed on principles of modern hygiene. From the Annals it will be seen that, in 1874, the detached fever wards were opened for the recej)tion of patients ; and in the year 1887 it is further proposed to increase the accommodation for febrile infectious diseases by building male and female wards for typhus, scarlatina, measles, and also observation wards. In this way patients will not run the risk of contracting the difierent febrile complaints, one after the other, by being placed in a ward where two or three different eruptive fevers are lying at the same time. And as this Hospital has grown, and I trust will still grow, in material proportions, so has the fame of its eminence as a medical school strengthened and spread. Much of this is due to the labours of our great predecessors, whose genuine work and worth have made the Meath Hospital famous throughout the whole civilised world. Who has not heard of the names of Dease (father and son), of Cheyne, Crampton, Eobert Graves, and William Stokes, Porter, Collis, Smyly, Macnamara, Ejmd, and many others? All were ^leatli Hospital men, and all endeavoured, by their lives and teaching, to shed lustre on the time-honoured institution they loved so dearly. Although they departed, they have left behind them representatives on the staff who follow in their distinguished footsteps, endeavouring still to maintain the high reputation and prestige handed down to them by their predecessors.

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Duriug the last twenty years the Hospital has improved in a very rapid manner as regards its internal, domestic, nursing, and hygienic arrangements. The wards and beds were old fashioned and very carelessly kept, the housing of patients was indifferent, ventilation was imperfectly carried out,_ and the nursing, though as good as in any other institution of the time, was very bad. At all times when any reform of an apjiarently novel nature is suggested, it usually at first meets with stern opposition ; the answer to reform is — that we all did very well twenty years ago, and we cannot see what good can bo derived from such changes.

However, if reformers are right in their suggestions, they should never be dismayed or disappointed by such opposition, for they must be prepared to meet it. The plan to adopt is to persevere, and by a judicious and earnest entreaty to those in opposition to endeavour to reason the matter out, and by persua- sion rather than exasperation most of the reforms will be effected.

In recent times, Maurice Henry Collis, who died in 1868, after one week’s illness of blood poisoning, received when operating on a case in the theatre, was a most successful and earnest reformer. By his unremitting toil and indefatigable energy, he carried the institution ahead at a very rapid pace. Death unfortunately terminated a most useful career just at the zenith of success. Others on the staff followed in the paths of progress, and the writer of this History may be forgiven when ho states that he himself has ever striven to bo a not unworthy imitator of Collis.

A student of twenty years ago now visiting the Hospital is charmed with its present appearance. As he enters the hall he looks in vain for the little narrow passage that led from the entrance door to the main corridor, paved with well-worn sand- stone flags. All this is gone, to bo replaced by a hall of no mean dimensions, handsomely and tastefully tiled with modern tessel- lated pavement, laid down this year, 1887, in memory of the revered name of Dease, father and son, former surgeons of the Institution, at the expense of the late Matthew O’Eoilly Dease,

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tlieir descendant. In this hall two marble Lusts are presented to view — on the left the visitor will see the bust of one who was amongst the foremost of European ph5'sicians — I need hardly say I allude to the illustrious name that was a household word among the scientific men of the United Kingdom in his day, "William Stokes. On the other side of the hall will be seen a memorial of worth that had departed from amongst us a few years previously, the bust of one of Ireland’s grandest surgeons, Sir Philip Orampton. The managing committee acted veiy wisely and appropriately in placing these busts in such promi- nent positions, that they cannot fail to attract the eye of the student as he makes his first entry into the hall of the Hospital. Eight or left the student, as he looks on Crampton or Stokes, will make no mistake in selecting one or the other as his exemplar for life’s battle. It may not be within the scope of his abilities to emulate the success these leaders of medical and surgical science have achieved, but he can, at all events, catch a share of their spirit of untiring labour, high purpose, and magnanimous self-sacrifice.

The visitor will also see the walls of the hall, which used to be bare and undecorated, now covered with the names of the governors and benefactors of the Institution, and those of the physicians and surgeons, with dates of their appointments, from the foimdation of the Hospital. The wards are gaily decorated with pictures, w’hich give them a pleasant and cheery appearance to those whose lot it is to spend in the Hospital, it may be, many weeks. The walls, formerly whitewashed in workhouse fashion, are now all smoothly painted in oil and in colours suitable and pleasant to the eye. All the old and antiquated bedsteads have been removed, and replaced w’ith iron bedsteads with woven wire mattresses of the newest and most approved patterns. The bed- ding and bedclothes are clean and wholesome, and changed as often as is necessary. The lavatory system is as perfect as it can be made, having an ample supply of water for flushing purposes. Ihe floors of the wards are stained and polished with bee’s-wax and turpentine, wEich gives the air a pleasant antiseptic odour,

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kills all forms of vermin, and tends to prevent the recurrence of erysipelas, hospital gangrene, and pyoomia. We infer this from the fact that since the floors were thus polished, and the anti- septic treatment introduced into our wards, we have not had a single case of erysipelas, hospital gangrene, or pysomia, arising spontaneously in the hospital.

The Children’s Ward is a gem of perfection for neatness, efficiency and comfort.

The Hospital Theatre was formerly filled with black unmean- ing presses ; these have been replaced by neat marble slabs, and a handsome marble washstand with a number of basins supplied with hot and cold water. A splint room has been constructed outside the theatre, provided with dressing press and trays and furnished with all appliances for emergency operations and accidents. The Mortuary, with inner and outer room, has been arranged with all modern improvements for the study of patho- logy and the performance of post-mortem examinations. Hot water baths have been placed on each of the three landings. The old presses that used to block up and occupy space ou the medical landing have been removed ; and the ventilation and proper lighting of the wards and passages have been carried out so far as the construction of the building would permit. Proper sleeping apartments have also been allotted to the nurses and ward maids.

The visitor will be struck with the change in the nui'sing system, as compared with twenty years ago. In the year 1879 the medical and surgical staff commenced to agitate for reform in the nursing system of the Hospital, and at a full Board suggestions were drawn up, and submitted to the managing committee for adoption, to improve the nursing system of the Hospital.

However, owing to vested interests, and a reluctance on the part of the Board to displace e.\isting officers, the system of nursing suggested by the medical board could not be carried out till 1884, when the present Lady Superintendent of Nurses (Miss Ellinor Lyons) was elected to take entire charge of the

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nursing arrangements of tlie Hospital; and by her judicious, quiet, conciliating, but determined example and teaching, she has adopted and carried out a system of nursing which few Dublin hospitals can equal, and fewer still in the United Kingdom can improve upon.

The modern trained nurse in the Meath Hospital is not educated to be an amateur doctor — she is taught to know that implicit obedience to the doctor’s orders is the first law of nursing. The Dublin Eed Cross Sisters’ Home and Training School for Hurses, has been established as a necessary result of the new system of nursing in the Hosiiital. In that institution a constant supply of educated, intelligent sisters can be procured, for nursing private cases, for the same fee which was paid to the old-fashioned, intemperate Mrs. Gamp. Staff nurses who have undergone the necessary training, and who hold certificates of pro- ficiency, testifying to their having passed searching examinations on sick nursing in all its branches, are placed on each landing of the Hospital. To these are entrusted the duty of teaching the different lady probationers, or pupil nurses, who remain on each landing, or department, for a period varying from six weeks to three months. In this way the pupil nurse will pass through the different departments in a period of twelve montlis, when she is allowed to present herself for examination, which if she is able to pass, she receives her certificate, and then either joins the Eed Cross Home as a sister, or seeks an appointment elsewhere. During the period of pupilage these probationers attend practical and theoretical lectures from members of the Hospital staff, the House Surgeon and Lady Suiierintendent, who certify that they have nursed in the accident, surgical, medical, fever, and childien s Waids, as well as to the fact that they have sei’ved their turn of night duty in the Hospital.

In June 1887, the building of the “ John Barber Wing ” was commenced. This wing facing Heytesbury Street will, when finished, increase to a considerable extent the capacity of the hospital for the reception of medical and surgical patients, and also the accommodation for the resident officers.

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The Bury bequest also will, it is expected, be very soon paid in to the hospital.

Views of the Hospital are given — as it was a century ago ; as it was in 1822, when it was moved to Heytesbury Street j and as it is at present.

THE

APPRENTICE SYSl'EM AT THE MEATH HOSPITAL

EOM the earliest annals of the Hospital, it appears it was the habit of all the surgeons to take apprentices ; and it seems a pity that such a good system with all its accompanying advantages to the pupil should have been allowed to partly die out, for in years gone by the system of professional education for the Irish surgeon was solely a system of apprenticeship; the pupil was bound to an hospital surgeon for five years, a period of study oftentimes j)rolonged, but never curtailed. The College of fSurgeons provided a school for instruction, but no one was obliged to enter it ; professors were there, but no one compelled to attend ; their lectures were delivered, but a certificate never asked for ; the only qualification demanded was the inipil’s in- (b nture, the test of competency the examination, and yet, strange to say, as compared with the present day of compulsory attend- ance on lectures, the school and the professors were well attended, and the final examinations passed with credit. Attempts are often made to throw a halo around these by-gone times, and to assert their superiority to more modern days. To compare the past with the present is perhaps invidious, for re- form and innovation are, as a rule, supposed to be improvements. Ihe S3 stem of- apprenticeship, I am inclined to believ’e, was a good one. An apprentice cannot be said to be friendless, he has

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some one from whom to seek direction, assistance, and advice. The late William Henry Porter, a distinguished scholar and surgeon, whoso name is a household word in the Meatli Hospital, in the last address he was permitted to give there said, when speaking of this system : — “I have often endeavoured to picture to myself the absolute desolation of a young man when first sent up to Dublin to win his way to medical honors as best he can. Dropped at tho railway station alone, and without a friend to meet him, or perhaps, as is more likely, consigned to some friend or acquaintance as ignorant and inexperienced in medical matters as he is himself, much of that young man’s future welfare depends on the hands into which he may first chance to fall. Open and unsuspicious as youth generally is, at an age when im- pressions for good or evil are most easily received, and, as too frequently happens, proud of his recently acquired independence, and confident in his strength, he falls, or is easily led into difficulties and dangers that impart an unhappy tinge to the whole character of his future life.”

Furthermore, by this system the staff became intimately acquainted with the character and disposition of the pupil, and enabled them to form an idea whether he, when qualified, would become an agreeable, genial, and efficient colleague, for in an Hospital nothing tends so much to damage the prestige and reputation of the institution as to have fighting, bickering, and backbiting going on secretly and openly amongst the members of its staff. The Meath Hospital has been peculiarly happy in always having physicians and surgeons who worked well and liarmoniously with each other. To have perfect harmony and unanimity would be out of the question, for at times different members of the staff have had their disputes, but were always able to keep their differences to themselves, so as not to interfere with the due care of the sick or suffering, or interfere with tho efficient teaching of the class. For instance, when the cost of building the Operating Theatre had to be paid, one surgeon refused to pay his contribution, which was at once defrayed by Sir Philip Crampton. On another occasion a bust of one of the

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members of tbe staff was procured, and the cost of same was defrayed by all the staff save one member of it; again the surgeons have frequently defrayed expenses connected with the surgical side of the house, never asking the physicians to assist with their contributions.

The remarkable unanimity and hai-monious working of the staff for the last 136 years I attribute, in a great measure, to the system of apprenticeship and to the vested power of the staff to fill up any vacancies that occurred on it from death or resigna- tion. The pupil filling all the subordinate positions in the Hospital learns all the traditions of the place far better than he could acquire them in any other way ; he learns to venerate and respect his teachers, and when his master becomes attached to him he is more likely to wish that such a pupil may become his colleague when a vacancy occurs than a perfect stranger, educated at some kindred institution, but having no sympathy for the Hospital he is about to become a candidate for. In the elections for physicians and surgeons the medical board have always been anxious to fill up the vacancies from former pupils and apprentices who have studied for their entire time at the Hospital, in the same way as, with such good results, the system has been carried out in nearly all the London Hospitals. In some instances surgeons and physicians were appointed who have studied in other Hospitals, but these have been the excep- tions and not the rule.

The staff of the Meath Hospital have always, in the City of Dublin, occupied a very high professional status, and this in itself has had much to do, from the earliest times, in attractiiiir pupils of high social position, who, when they became qualified and entered into the practice of the profession, whether as members of the staff, or engaged in general practice, have con- tinued to be actuated by friendly feelings towards the Hospital, and frequently induced their sons, grandsons, and nephews, years afterwards, to study where they were educated them- selves. The physicians never took apprentices. Owing to the iriegular way the minutes of the medical board wore kept, it is

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hard to get a full record of the apprentices of the different surgeons, but the following may be of interest to show how universal the system of apprenticeship was : —

First apprentice mentioned in the minute book of the medical board, Meath Hospital —

Thomas Evory, indented apprentice to Mr. William Yance, surgeon, for five years from the first of August, 1775.

Then follow : —

Andrew Castle, indented apprentice to Mr. Solomon Richards, surgeon, for five years from the twenty-fourth of April, 1791.

Philip Crampton, indented apprentice to Mr. Solomon Richards, surgeon, for five years from the eighth of November, 1792.

Richard Dease, indented apprentice to Mr. Solomon Richards, surgeon, for the term of five years from the eighth of November, 1792.

Peter Kelly, indented apprentice to Mr. Patrick Roney, surgeon, for the term of five years from the first day of January, 1796.

Cusack Roney, indented apprentice to Mr. Patrick Roney, surgeon, for the term of five years from the twenty-fifth day of March, 1795.

Charles Sutton, indented to Mr. Solomon Richards, surgeon, for the term of five years from the first day of May, 1796.

George Allen, indented to Mr. Solomon Richards, surgeon, for the term of five years from the first day of May, 1796.

P. Egan, indented apprentice to Mr. Solomon Richards, surgeon, from the first day of March, 1800, for the term of five years.

Andrew Blake, indented to Mr. Richard Dease, for the term of five years from the first day of October, 1800.

Thomas Hewson, indented to Mr. S. Richards, for the term of five years from the first day of May, 1801.

Thomas Roney, indented apprentice to Mr. Patrick Roney, for the term of five years from the 2nd February, 1808.

Samuel Hall, indented apprentice to Mr. P. Crampton, June 5th, 1804, for the term of five years.

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Charles Farran, indented apprentice to Mr. Eichards, March 31st, 1808, for the term of five years.

Tliomas Beale, indented apprentice to Mr. Eichards, March 31st, 1808, for the term of five years.

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

SIE PHILIP CEAMPTON, Bart., Surgeon, 1798 to 1858.

Eawdon Macnamara Samuel Hall AVilliam Eobinson Smith John Euxton Alexander Christopher Eussell William Henry Porter Josiah Smyly William Castles Francis Evnd

V

1810

June, 5th, 1814

November, 1816

1823

Wellington Harte John Hamilton William T. Latham Thomas Lane Christopher B. Lane George Thompson Eichard Whelan Cecil Burleigh Crampton James Sinclair Henry Joseph Smith Philip Crampton Wm. IMagrath Fitzgerald Hartwell S. Garner Eawdon Macnamara I'.dward Barrett Ilearney John Casement Philip Crampton Smyly

Regd. at R.C.S.I. Rassed Cullcge.

25 Nov.,

1829.

—

1 0 J uly

9 9

—

1 0 Nov.

99

11

Feb.,

1837

2 Feb.,

1830.

31

July,

1838

2 Nov.

99

...

16 July,

1831.

30 Aug.

99

6 Nov.,

1832.

-

17 Dec.

99

3 Dec.,

1834.

19

July,

1841

6 Dec.

99

25 Apl.,

1835.

8

Dec.,

184 0

26 July,

1837.

28

June,

1812

16 Mar.,

1838.

10

May,

1846

4 Oct.,

1814.

2

Mar.,

1857

5 Sept.,

1845.

13

J uue,

1818

Indented

1 Nov.

1853

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APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

ME. CUSACK RONEY, Surgeon, 1802 to 1849.

Mr. Taaffe ) Prior to Mr. Sherridan ) 1828.

Michael Lee O’Neill Ferguson George Forde Smith Edmond Uuigan Francis Roose George Hay Michael D. Kearney Mathew H. Braddell Thomas Breen John Heron

Rcgd. at R.C.S.I.

11 Nov., 1828.

13 Jan., 1829. 24 Feb. ,,

29 Mar., 1831.

24 Apl., 1832.

14 Nov., 1834.

25 July, 1835.

1 Nov., 1837.

2 Oct., 1841. 6 Apl., 1846.

Passed College

15 Oct., 1831 20 Mar., 1838

19 Oct., 1841 9 July, 1842 3 July, 1846 8 Aug., 1850

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

MR. THOMAS HEWSON, Surgeon, 1809 to 1831.

Maurice Collis Charles Johnson John Harte Thomas Lysaght Augustus Tabiteau William Carte George Greene Charles Bell Jeremiah Scollard Pilkington Croasdaile John M'Cullagh W. H. Astle

Date of Indenture.

4 Feb., 1826.

APPRENTICES INDENTED Ti)

MR. THOMAS RONEY, Surgeon, 1813 to 1825. Arthur Savage 20th July, 1813

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Andrew Ellis Patrick M'Cormick Peter O’Beirne ^Michael Bardin John Darman Richard Weldon Patrick Comerford

Date of Indenture. 28 th January, 1815 28th January, 1815

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

MR. RAWDON MACNAMARA I., Surgeon, 1819 to 1836. George Hyde, \

John M'Kay, 1

Nicholas O’Elaherty, j

Daniel Reardon, f

Adderly OampbeU, I All prior to 1828.

ISlathew E. White, i

Pierce O’B. Butler, \

Lewis Moss, I

Richard Lambert, /

Regd. at R.C.S.I.

Passed College.

George Mahon

1 1 Nov.,

1828.

1 3 June,

1837

Andrew Aylmer Staunton . .

24 Mar.,

1829.

Thomas J oseph Ryan

10 Nov.

)?

William 11. P. Franklin . .

18 May,

1830.

26 Aug.,

1835

Cathcart Lees

2 Nov.

n

23 Dec.,

1837

John Creery

16 Nov.

9 9

Robert Thomas Kelly

16 Nov.

James Blake

16 Nov.

Thomas Monahan

15 Mar.,

1832.

28 Oct.,

1837

’^•■Janies Ahilentine Brown . .

1 May

99

31 Mar.,

18.38

tJamos B. Motherwell

-

Abraham C. Barker

22 Jan.,

1833.

Peter James Flanagaii

1 1 J une

9 9

—

* 1 ninsfcrrcd to W. H. Porter, 9th Dooembor, 1836. t Tninyf erred from late Wm. Bell, 20tli November, 1832

ArniEM’ICE SYSTEM.

O /

Rcgd. at R.C.S.I.

Bussed College.

Edward Quinlan

21 Oct.,

1833.

31 July,

1839

'^'Thomas Palmer

—

John Ternan

17 Oct.,

1834.

6 Dec.

7 7

John Henry O’Eorke

18 Oct.

—

Thomas Blake

24 May,

1836.

—

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

ME. WILLIAM HENEY POETEE,

Surgeon, 1819 to 186

fEichard Behan

Date of Indenture.

William J ones

•30 Sept.,

1822.

J Andrew Knight Young . .

30 Sept.

}}

Patrick C. Eooney

3 May,

1823.

George Henry Doran

1 Dec.

7 7

William Augustus Walker. .

20 Nov.,

1824.

William Ai-mstrong

28 Nov.,

1825.

Charles La Grange

Registered R.C.S.I. 1 Oct., 1826.

Pas.sed College.

§Zachariah Johnson

—

1829.

—

Eichard Lett

5 July,

1831.

1 Nov.,

1836

George Perry

10 Jan.,

1832.

23 Oct.,

1810

Joseph W. Sparrow

14 Feb.

77

1 1 Nov.,

1836

Solomon E. Biggs

23 Oct.

77

19 May,

1838

James Kernaghan

6 Nov.

77

19 May

77

James Vicary

15 Nov.

77

19 May

7 7

Jeremiah H. Kelly

17 Dec.

77

26 May

7 7

George E. Fraser

22 Jan.,

1833.

26 May

77

Douglas Davis

26 Feb.

77

26 May

77

Eichard Chaytor

2 July

77

15 Sept.

7 7

Eichard C. Walker

30 Oct.

77

15 Sept.

7 7

Eobert Johns

30 Oct.

77

18 Dec.,

1839

Joseph Lightbourne

26 Nov.

77

14 Nov.,

1838

* Transferred from Wm. Bell, lltli December, 1833. t Transferred from late A. Boxwell.

I Still living (1887) in Monaghan, Surgeon to Co. Infirman'. § Now Surgeon of the Co. Kilkenny Infirmary (1887').

38

Al’PRENTICE SYSTEM.

llegd. at R.C.S.I.

Passed College.

John Hugh Johnston

25 Apr.,

1834.

—

Thomas L. Belcher

24 Nov.

—

Arthur R. Fraser

24 Nov.

n

—

William S. Alalley

—

—

William Morton

3 Nov.,

1835.

22 Doc., 1843.

William Dix

3 Dec.,

1836.

16 Nov, 1841.

Edward Quinau \

Abraham C. Barker |

Thomas Monahan 1

Transferred from the late Mr. Rawdon Macnamara, 9th Decem- ber, 1836.

James Valentine Browne ' Robert Heighington

2 Feb.,

1838.

20 Dec., 1842

Rollo Lett

12 June,

1840.

—

James Jesson

14 June,

1843.

—

John Henry Halahan

15 Aug.

))

—

Joshua Henry Porter

26 Aug.

f}

23 Dec., 1852

■^‘George Frederick Davis . .

30 Oct.,

1849.

18 Aug., 1853

James Hornidge Finemore...

29 Nov.

>>

28 Apr., 1854

Richard T. Deeper

30 June,

1846.

16 Feb., 1853

Jeoffrey Sullivan

—

—

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

MR. MAURICE COLLIS I., Surgeon, 1825 to 1852.

Arthur Guinness

6

July,

1830.

17

Mar.,

1835

George Dunne

8

Aug.,

1829.

—

William Godfrey Day

23

Mar.,

1830.

6

June

George Walker . ,

15

Feb.,

1831.

27

Feb.,

1836

Edward Herbert Kenney . .

3

Dec.

}}

—

Robert Hewson

17

Dec.

n

19

Dec.

Arthur Mitchell

30

Oct.,

1832.

_

John Busteed

13

Nov.

8

July,

1843

Joshua Metcalf

19

Mar.,

1833.

fEdward Harding

—

26

Apr.,

1836

* Gone to Tasmania, 188G.

t Transforicd from late Air. Ilcwson, 29th October, 1831.

ArPRENTICE SYSTEM.

39

Stephen H. Grisford John O’Dell Roper Little Robert C. Hickson William T. Hamilton Robert Synnott James Henry Wharton George D. Mansfield Falkiner T. Sandes Thomas Casserly Cuthbert T. Barlow Benjamin Armstrong Thomas Rowan Richard Woodley William Singleton Henry Head John Dunn John Bernard Hampden H. Massey John J. Clifford J as. Fitzgerald M ‘Mitchell Robert Hussey Richard J. Hobson Maurice Henry CoUis Lombe Atthill Robert Fitzmaurice Robert Murray Theobald F. H. Langstaff Benjamin Guinness

licgd. at R.C.S.I Passed College.

6

Nov.,

1833.

—

31

Dec.

—

27

Jan.,

1834.

26

June,

1839

6

Juno

}}

—

18

June

77

14

June,

1841

28

Oct.

77

3

July,

1845

28

Nov.

77

20

Dec.,

1839

20

June,

1835.

20

J uly.

1810

30

Oct.

77

—

7

Nov.

77

24

June,

1840

27

Feb.,

1836.

27

May,

1841

12

Apr.

77

—

8

Nov.

77

—

6

June,

1837.

8

Dec.,

1842

5

Dec.

77

11

Dec.,

1843

5

Dec.

77

29

Apr.,

1842

.0

Dec.

77

6

Jan.,

1844

16

Jan.,

1838.

24

Sept.,

1841

17

July

77

30

May,

1842

17

July

77

24

Dec.

77

4

Oct.,

1839.

—

23

Apr.

>}

7

Oct.,

1843

18

Dec.

)>

1

Aug.,

1845

22

Nov.,

1843.

12

May,

1847

9

Nov.,

1844.

28

July

77

9

Nov.

>>

8

Aug.,

1851

8

Nov.,

1847.

4

Aug.

77

2

Feb.,

1850.

24

Aug.,

1853

29

Nov.

}>

18

May,

1854

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

MR. JOSIAH SMYLY, Surgeon, 1831 to 1861.

26 Feb., 1833. —

26 Feb., 1833. —

13 Nov. ,, —

Robert J. Peed William Knott William Caulfield

40

APPRENTICE SYSTEM.

E,egd. at E.C.S.I.

Passed College

♦John H. O’Rorke

—

—

Theophilus Foot

10 Dec., 1836.

—

William Gilbert

2 Nov., 1838.

—

George II. Porter

8 Nov. ,,

1 Nov.,

1844

Henry K. Scott

24 Nov. ,,

—

Isaac A. D’Olier

16 Oct., 1843.

14 June

J >

Ricliard Boxwell

10 Jan., 1849.

29 Jan.,

1855

Henry Lionel Smith

1 Nov., 1860.

—

John E. Keegan

—

—

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

ME. FRANCIS EYND, Surgeon, 1836 to 1801

.

Thomas Andrews

13 Aug., 1833.

15 June,

1840

John Wrixon

14 May, 1834.

—

Georc’e Evan

O V

14 Nov. ,,

25 June,

1840

William C. Chambers

3 Dec. ,,

18 June

J J

Jonathan Galley

3 Dec. ,,

—

Charles P. Stockley

3 Dec. ,,

—

James Crowe Fleming

9 Apr., 1836.

—

George Fetherstono

27 Jan., 1837.

—

John G. Mason

1 4 Dec. , ,

—

George H. Alloway

14 Dec. ,,

25 Apr.,

1843

Richard Irwin

27 May, 1841.

—

Richard Gregory

• •

28 Nov., 1844.

—

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

SIR GEORGE PORTER, D.L., (Senior Sdrgeon, 1887.)

Appointed 1849.

John Hornidge Walsh F. Seymour F. Ebbs

Robert Matthews Thomas Faris Thomas J. Thompson

Date of Indenture.

1 November, 1852 I November, 1858 1 November ,,

6 June, 1803 23 October, 18C3 10 November, 1804

* Obiit, Angu.st, 1887.

ArPRENTICE SYSTEM.

Edward Jones Cooke

28 October,

>>

Francis W. Greene

1 November,

1862

William B. Pearsall

1 November,

Thomas Henry Heath

14 September,

1864

William Falls

22 November,

> }

William Henry M. Leeper

22 August,

1865

William Joseph. Coghlan

1 November,

)}

Eohert Falkner

4 December,

John Pichard H. Sutton

1 November,

♦ *

George J. Hornidge

16 November,

J J

Edward Murphy

9 October,

1866

George Hemy Ormshy

9 November,

Lambert H. Ormshy

9 November,

) }

Mark A.nthony Fenton

2 November,

77

Alfred Hubert Kelly

31 October,

? »

George Mark A. Budkin

25 April,

77

William Josiah Smyly,

31 July,

1867

George Christopher Mathews . .

16 February,

77

Harvie Scott

19 November,

1868

Henry Alexander Brunker

26 October,

7 7

George Dean Bourke

4 October,

1870

Henry A. Powell

13 November,

1871

Eichard D’Olier Duckworth . .

13 January,

1872

Edward J. Blacker

31 October,

77

George E. Leeper

26 December,

77

Eichard H. Courtney

21 January,

1874

William Edmond O’Connor

16 November,

1875

J ohn George Cronyn

80 October,

1876

Frank Thorpe Porter Newell . .

26 October,

1877

Arthur Barlow

1 November,

1878

George Bagot

1 November,

1879

John Adams Johns

22 December,

1880

George Paris

28 October,

1881

William E. C. Murphy

1 November,

1881

Francis Hasting Macnamara . .

24 October,

1884

42

APPRENTICE SYSTEM.

16 April, 1848

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

ME. MAUEICE HENRY COLLIS II., Surgeon, 1851 to

Date of Indenture.

Alexander F. Bartley, bound to Maurice CoUis, of Morrion- square, Dublin, and trans- ferred, at bis death, to Maurice Henry Collis, F.E.C.S.

Theobald Fetherston Langstaff, bound to Maurice Collis, of Merrion-square, Dublin, and transferred, at his death, to Maurice Henry Collis, F R C S

Joseph Morley Dennis, bound to Maurice Collis, of Merrion- square, Dublin, and trans- ferred, at his death, to Maurice Henry Collis, F.R.C.S.

George Pierce, bound to Maurice Collis, of Merrion-square,

Dublin, and transferred at his death, to Maurice Henry

1869.

1849

December, 1850

Collis, F.R.C.S.

November,

1851

Francis Odell

1 November,

>>

Herbert Wm. Clifford

5 September,

James Wilson

7 November,

1853

William Robert Keraus

30 November,

1854

Charles Mason Scott

11 October

1855

John Henry Thompson

1 May,

) )

George William Sack

1 May,

>9

John Brown

21 Januai’y,

1856

William Reddell Bell

1 November,

1855

John J. Alton

1 May,

) f

Leonard Nugent M'Dermott . .

4 May,

1857

Charles Fleetwood Churchill . .

22 October,

APPllEXTICE SYSTEM.

43

Date of Indenture.

Alexander Ferrier Churchill

21 February,

1857

Eichard Fitzgerald

27 November,

1858

William Frederick Wilson

15 October,

>>

Ai’thur Wynne Foot

1 Januarv,

1859

Philip Atkins

21 November,

Leslie Crosbie

24 November,

1860

George Massy

13 November,

yy

William S. M. Price

5 November,

y y

John George Stokes

7 February,

y >

Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh

15 October,

1861

William Fetherstonhaugh

15 October,

yy

Edward Irwin Scott

October,

1863

Thomas E. Kerans

25 January,

1868

Thomas Gilbart Smith

)

F. F. Hackett

1 November,

1886

J. H. Nelville

)

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

MR. JAMES H.

WHARTON, Surgeon.

Appointed

1858.

Madison F. Fisher

John Peter H. Boileau

Robert Duke

G. H. Wharton

24 November,

1860

Thomas William Patterson

David Carleton

29 November,

1862

Valentine Duke

29 November,

yy

Henry James Hazlett

Thomas M. Armstrong

Oscar T. Woods

27 October,

1866

Henry William Patterson

Charles S. Grant

17 April,

1869

G. J. W. Redmond,

31 July,

yy

Arthur W. Russell

44

APrEENTICi3 SYSTEM,

Alfred Patterson Cliarles Roe Francis C. Fisher John Patterson George Edward Fisher George Churchill Vicars Fisher Thomas Lee William Taylor M. LaTouche Fisher

Date of Indenture.

30 November, 1871

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

ME. RAWDON MACNAMARA II., Suegeon. Appointed 1861.

The Hon. Barry Bingham Edward Westby Percival Francis Lovely Cornelius Sampson Thomas Henry Scott Daniel Charles Gross Peter Valentine Walsh Jerome Morgan John Riddick Daniel C. J. Bourns Henry Harris Langstalf Richard Francis Macnamara John Murdoch George Bovd William Smith Henry Stannard James Berry Kenny James Smith Richard Dancer Purefuy Albert Charles Gueely

.. October, 1858

. , October, ,,

r . Octobei', 1859

. . October, ,,

October, 1860

. . October, ,,

. . October, 1861

November, ,,

, . October, ,,

November, ,,

July, 1862

October, ,,

December, 1863 . . October, ,,

February, 1864 May,

June, 1865

. . November, ,,

April, 1866

. . • October, ,,

APPRENTICE SYSTEM.

45

John George Queely

Date of Indenture. October, 1866

Cecil Thomas Quill

November, 1868

Henry Mark Scott

October, 1869

Shapland Homan Newell

April, ,,

Francis Gerald Turner

October, 1871

Eichard Marlay Blake

October, ,,

James Steele Swain

October, 1873

Samuel Sproule Swain

October, ,,

Eobert Gordon

September, 187 4

William Patrick O’ Dwyer

October, ,,

Macnamara M. Williamson

October, 1876

Alfred F. Smith

November, 1878

Hugh A. L. Burchal

October, ,,

Peter Purcell MacDonnell

October, ,,

John Francis Campbell

October, 1879

Percy Newell

August,

Edward Graves Newell

November, 1880

William George Conner

August, „

Eobert Eustace Hickey

October, 1883

Wilfred P. Wynne

October, , ,

Edward Fraser

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

ME. PHILIP CEAMPTON SMYLY, Surgeon. Appointed 1861.

Alexander Stokes, mLo took first place at the M.P. aud M.Ch. Examinations in Trinity College, Dublin, and who entered the Army Medical Service.

Brooke Woleslej', Eesident and Clinical Clerk, engaged in General Practice in England, and died 1885.

Charles Edward M'Carthy, who went to Australia, and died there in 1867.

•16

ArrRENTICE SYSTEM.

Cecil Josiah L. Bushe, who entered the Army Medical Service. (Indented 1867.)

Kendal M. Franks, who is now Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital. (Indented 1868.)

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

MR. ROBERT PERSSE WHITE, Surgeon, 1868 to 1879.

Mr. Robert Wake, and transferred at Mr. White’s death (1879) to Mr. Ormsby.

APPRENTICES INDENTED TO

MR. LAMBERT HEPENSTAL ORMSBY, Surgeon. Appointed 1872.

William A. Lee (date of Indenture, May 1st, 1872), entered the Indian Medical Service; took 1st place, 1875 Frank Hart, engaged in English practice Cuthbert C. Fitzsimon, in West Indian Medical Service Henry Stewart Jackson, entered the Royal Naval Service William Griffin, died in Co. Limerick, October 5th, 1877 William Nash, Brockley Hall, Bristol ; gave up the profes- sion, 1877

James Edward Grier, never qualified ; died in America, 1885 John O’Grady (date of Indenture, November 1st, 1876) Anthony Hickman Morgan, entered Army Medical Service, August, 1880

Arthur William MacMath, in practice in Australia, 1887 William Falkiner, did not qualify ; went to America Arthur Hill Murray, engaged in practice in Australia, 1887 WiUiam Lane MacCormack, in practice in England, 1887 Maurice C. O’Connell (Indenture dated April 20th, 1878) Patrick Henry Russell (Indented December 3rd, 1877) Robert Parker MacMath (Indented December 12th, 1877) James Joseph O’Dwyer, died at Tramore, Co. Waterford, 1883

-APPREXTICE SYSTEM.

47

John Joseph Todd, in practice in Omagh, 1887 Robert Hickson, entered Royal Naval Atedical Service

William Watson Pike, entered Army Medical Service, August 1881 ® ’

George Howe, gave up the profession, April 14th, 1879 William Frederick Johnson, passed the R.C.S.I., 1884 Francis Christian Roe (bound November 20th, 1878), in practice in London, 1887

Robert Wake, transferred from Mr. White, 1879 William Henry Waterfield (Indented 1st November, 1879), in practice near Plymouth, 1887

William Delahunt (Indented November 4th, 1879), fully qualified, February, 1884

Maurice Treston (Indented May, 1880)

Graham Kennedy (Indented November 1st, 1880),' entered Royal Navy, 1886 ’

Richard Hugo (Indented October 1st, 1882)

James Hastings Morgan (Indented October, 1883)

Robert Trumbull (Indented May 1st, 1884)

Henry Johnson Hildige (Indented November 1st, 1884)

Percy Jones (Indented November 1st, 1886)

Henry Ormsby (Indented November 1st, 1886)

Charles Burnett Scott (Indented October 5th, 1887)

Gordon MoflFatt Thompson (Indented October 5th, 1887) illiam atson Scarlett (Indented October 6th, 1887)

apprentices indented to MR. WILLIAM HEPBURN, Surgeon. Appointed 1879.

illiam W. Scott (Indented August 22nd, 1879)

Richard D. Pennefather (Indented September 23rd, 1880) William H. Robinson (Indented September 23rd, 1880) Berkley Foote Falkner (Indented September 27th, 1882) alter Smart (Indented September 28th, 1886)

A\ illiam Robert Griffin (Indented January 31st, 1887)

THE

INAUGURATION OF THE PRIZES IN TEE MEATH

HOSPITAL, 1831.

X Monday, the 2nd day of May, 1831, the medical prizes which were proposed to he competed for at the commencement of the session, were pub- licly conferred in the theatre of the Hospital.

In this Institution the German mode of clinical instruction was first introduced some years ago by Dr. Graves, and has since been acted upon with considerable success. The peculiarity of this mode consists in the entrusting to each student a certain number of cases, of which he has the charge, the history and daily reports of these cases are to be taken by him, and the diagnosis, prognosis, and mode of treatment, are to emanate from himself, subject always to the corrections and emendations of the physician, who thus in his daily visits to the patients acts in a consulting capacity. Every new case, or every change in the symptoms of a case, calls for a new examination and discussion between the physician and pupil, and the result is highly bene- ficial to all parties concerned, but especially to the pupil, who is in this waj’ taught to think for himself, and to compare disease, as it is really met with, with the description given in books. His attention is directed to the acquisition of facts, and he learns that accuracy of examination, which is so essential a qualification

INAUGURATION OF PRIZES.

49

of tlie physician. The result of the competition may well be appealed to as a proof of the excellence of this mode of instruction.

Four prizes were proposed to be competed for^ under the express condition that the candidates should all have undertaken the care of patients in the Hospital for at least three consecutive months. The circumstances which were to guide the distribution of prizes were the following : —

1. The writing of the best reports, with clinical and general observations on the cases taken. n

2. The length of time the candidate had practised in the wards.

3. His diligence and general good conduct.

On the day above mentioned the physicians of the Hospital assembled the pupils in the theatre, at 9 a.m., when Dr. Graves commenced by observing that of the cases sent in to him, those by Mr. John Hamilton were the best ; and on referring to his colleague, Dr. Stokes, he learned from him that he also had found Mr. Hamilton’s cases to be the best of those taken under his inspection. On these grounds, and also that Mr. Hamilton had practised diligently for six months, the first prize was awarded to him. The second was given to Mr. John Cameron, and the third to Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, both of these gentle- men having practised during the whole season. The fourth was awarded to Iitr. William D. Bernard, who had practised but the last four months of the season.

Dr. Graves then gave a short analysis of the cases of Messrs. Hamilton and Cameron ; Mr. Hamilton’s cases were the follow- ing : — Aneurism of the Abdominal Aorta, Hepatization of the Upper Lobe of the Eight Lung, Bronchitis with Dropsy, several cases of Periostitis, Sciatica treated Acupuncturation, Urticaria, Lupus, Dropsy, Jaundice, Hemiplegia with Iritis, Epilepsy.

Those of Mr. Cameron’s were — several examples of Fever, Periostitis, Disease of the Mitral Valves, Tubercular Phthisis, Pneumonia, Acute Bronchitis, Abscess of the Brain, Acute Dropsy, Pericarditis, Pleurodyne, Delirium Tremens, Arthritis.

D

50

INAUGUKATION OF FRIZES.

On these reports Dr. Graves made some highly eomplimentary observations, specifying particularly Mr. Hamilton’s cases of abdominal anemdsm, sciatica, and disease of the brain ; and Mr. Cameron’s of disease of the heart, phthisis, and pneumonia.

He then stated that he and his colleague had been so much gratified with the reports and observations of a fifth candidate, Mr. Henry Hodges, that they had determined on giving him an extra prize of half the value, and concluded by stating that he and his colleague considered many of the cases and observations of both of the successful candidates highly worthy of publication.

Dr. Stokes then addressed the class, and proceeded to comment on the cases submitted to him by the successful candidates. Mr. Hamilton’s were the following — Pleurisy with Effusion, Double Pleuropneumony, Asthma, Diarrhoea after Ague, Dysentery, Acute Pheumatism, Periostitis, Ague and Typhus Fever. The first of these cases was peculiarly interesting from the fact that the disease occurred in a person who was maniacal, but in whom the intellects were restored during the disease of the chest, and became again disordered on his convalescence. Mr. Cameron’s cases were Gastro-Catai’rhal Fever, Phthisis, Meningitis, Inflam- mation of the Absorbents, Diptheritis. On these Dr. Stokes made several observations, and proceeded to notice the report of Mr. Fitzpatrick, which related solely to fever, and which presented a most accurate description of a form of fever lately epidemic in Dublin, in which both the gastro-intestinal and bronchial mucous membranes were severely affected. Mr. Bernard’s cases were examples of Pityriasis, Nervous Palpitation, Abdominal Tumoiu’ (a most remarkable case, in which substances re- sembling Hydatids were expectorated), Dropsy, and Hemiplegia with Contraction. Dr. Stokes pronounced an eulogium on the observations of Mr. Bernard as to the case of expectoration of hydatids, which, he stated, would not have disgraced the most experienced pathologist.

The prizes awarded were the following To Mr. Thomas Johnson (clinical clerk), for his answering at the November ex- amination for the post of clinical clerk, then obtained by Mr.

INAUGURATION OF PRIZES.

51

Kane, who has since been appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Apothecaries’ Hall (now Sir Robert Kane, 1887.)

First Clinical Prize

-

Mr. Hamilton.

Second

do.

-

Mr. Cameron.

Third

do.

-

Mr. Fitzpatrick.'

Fourth

do.

-

Mr. Bernard.

Fifth (extra)

-

Mr. Hodges.

* Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, now living, 1887, at 31, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin.

{Taken from London Medical Gazette, May 21s^, 1831.)

PRIZEMEN OE THE HOSPITAL,

FROM 1855 TO 1887.

1 8 5 5 .

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr James Davis (now Brigade Surgeon,

A.M.S., 1887)

Junior ,, Mr T. Bennett

Senior Medical Prize — Mr A. 0. K. Nolan (now at Gort, Co.

Galway)

,, ,, Mr C. J. Egan

Junior ,, Mr C. J. Egan

,, ,, Mr James Davis

1 8 5 6.

Senior Surgical Prize— Mr W. S. Oliver

Junior ,, Mr WiUiam P. Xerans

Senior Medical Prize — Mr T. J. Moore

Junior ,, Mr Benjamin Burland (Brigade Surgeon,

retired 1887)

Mr C. J. Egan *

Mr T. Fitzpatrick f

1 8 5 7.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr H. Palk

Junior ,, Mr H. C. Guinness

Senior Medical Prize — ]\Ir William Creaffli Junior ,, Mr de Poulton G. Nicholson

Mr John Campbell*'

♦ Gold Medal, Pathological Society, Diihliii. t Silver Medal, Pathological Societ) .

PRIZEMEN OF THE HOSPITAL.

53

1 8 5 8.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr H. C. Guinness Junior ,, Mr F. Egan

Junior Medical Prize — Mr P. C. Smyly

1 8 5 9 .

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr B. Hinde Junior ,, Mr L. B. Mulock

,, ,, Mr A. W. Foot

Senior Medical Prize — Mr P, C. Smyly 1st Jr. ,, Mr P. C. Baxter

2nd ,, Mr P. Quinlan

1 8 6 0.

Senior Surgical Prize — MrFrancis Staples (now Brigade Surgeon,

A.M.S., 1887)

Junior „ Mr R. Townsend, B.A,, Oxon.

Senior Medical Prize —Mr Francis Egan.

Junior ,, Mr Roderick Gilhooley

„ ,, Mr Francis Staples

Surgical Case Prize — Mr Arthur Wynne Foot

18 6 1.

•Mr John B. Mulock Mr John Rynd Mr John Graham -Mr Arthur Wynne Foot f Mr William R. Kynsey William (now Sir William) Stokes *

1 8 6 2.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr John Ball Junior „ Mr T. W. Patterson

Surgical Case Prize — Mr V. R. Delandre 1st Medical Prize — Mr John Mulock f 2nd ,, Mr Campbell Fair

Senior Surgical Prize — 1st Jr. ,,

2nd „

1 st Medical Prize — 2nd „

* Gold Medallist, Pathological Society, t Silver Medallist, Pathological Society.

54

PRIZEMEN OF THE HOSPITAL.

1 8 6 3 .

1st Surgical Prize — Mr D. C. G. Bourns 2nd ,, Mr J. R. White

1st Jr. ,, Mr J. Riddick

2nd ,, Mr T. Fowler

1st Medical Prize — Mr W. G. Smith 2nd ,, Mr S. Murdock

1 8 6 4.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr J. M. Finny Junior ,, Mr F. W. Green

1st Medical Prize— Mr J. M. Finny 2nd ,, Mr James Kelly

1 8 6 5.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr Thomas Wilson Junior ,, Mr W. B. Pearsall

1st Medical Prize — Mr John Todhunter 2nd „ Mr Richard H. Curran

1 8 6 6.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr W. D. Wilson 2nd ,, Mr J. Marshall

Junior ,, Mr G. Roe Carter

1st Medical Prize- -Mr G. E. Dobson *

2nd ,, Mr J. W. Moore

1 8 6 7.

Senior Surgical Prize —Mr J. Bai’ton 1st Jr. ,, Mr W. n. Syme

2nd ,, Mr R. D. Purefoy

1st Medical Prize — Mr W. F. Murray 2nd ,, Mr J. Barton

* Gold Medallist, Pathological Society.

PRIZEMEN OF THE HOSPITAL.

1 8 6 8.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr "W. H. Syme let Jr. ,, Mr P. Stirling

2nd ,, Mr W. Smyly

Ist Medical Prize — Mr W. Syme 2nd ,, Mr C. Sibthorpe

E. W. Collins *

1 8 6 9.

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr C. Sibthorpe 2nd ,, Mr G. Parsons

1st Jr. ,, Mr W. E. Murphy

2nd ,, Mr H. Thornhill

1 st Medical Prize — Mr G. Parsons 2nd ,, Mr T. G. Kerans

Mr F. C. Crossle ^

1 8 7 0.

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr W. Smyly 1st Jr. ,, Mr K. Franks

2nd ,, Mr J. E. V. Foss

1st Medical Prize — W. E. Murphy 2nd ,, W. Smyly

Mr W. E. Murphy f

18 7 1.

Senior Medical Prize — Mr J. O’Connor Junior ,, Mr D. Kennedy

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr W. E. Murphy 2nd ,, Mr C. Bushe

Junior ,, Mr M. Given

2nd ,, Mr A. J. Brady

Martin Surgical Prize — Mr H. Thornhill ,, Medical Prize — Mr W. E. Murphy ,, Junior Prize — Mr G. B. Cooksey

Mr W. Smyly*

* Gold Medallist, Pathological Society, t Martin Prize.

56

PRIZEJIEN OF THE HOSPITAL.

1 8 7 2.

1st Son. Surg. Prize — Mr M. Given 2nd ,, Mr A. Adams

1st Jun. Surg. Prize— Mr C. Fitzsimon 2nd ,, Mr J. J. Middleton

1st Medical Prize — Mr H. Mallins 2nd ,, Mr A. Adams

2nd ,, Mr 0. A. M'Munu

The Hudson Prize for i Mr Charles A. M‘Munn Medical Cases ( Mr Henry Mallins

1 8 7 3.

let Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr C. C. Fitzsimon 2nd ,, Mr A. F. Adams

1st Jr. ,, Mr J. H. Malone

1st Medical Prize — Mr C. C. Fitzsimon The Hudson Prize for ( Mr Kendal M. Franks Medical Cases ' Mr Frederick Tuthill

1 8 7 4.

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — INlr Thomas E. Eyan 2nd ,, Mr David Drummond

1st Jr. ,, Mr William Lee

1st Medical Prize — Mr Cmsar Sherrard 2nd ,, Mr Peter J. Farrelle

The Hudson Prize for ( Mr Leland Robinson Medical Cases ( Mr Thomas O’Flaherty

Mr Kendal Franks'*^

18 7 5

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr John T. Power let Jr. ,, ]\[r Francis Fisher

2nd ,, Mr John Patterson

The Hudson Prize for | Mr Clement Mallins

Medical Cases ^ j\rr Gilbert Lynch

* Gold Medallist, Pathological Society.

PRIZEMKX OF THK HOSPITAL.

57

18 7 6

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr Michael Dundon 1st Jr. ,, Mr Eobert Gordon

1st Medical Prize — Mr Arthur Inman 2nd ,, Mr Frederick Collins

3rd „ Mr W. H. Flanagan

3rd Mr H. A. Davidson

The Hudson Prize for ( Mr W. H. Flanagan Medical Cases ( Mr Dudley Fitzgerald

18 7 7

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr William Miley 2nd ,, Mr Eobert Gordon

2nd ,, Mr James Peacock

1st Jun. Surg. Prize Mr James H. Parkinson ,, ,, Mr Lucas Middleton

2nd ,, Mr George Fisher

1st Medical Prize — Mr Henry Sherrard 2nd ,, Mr John P. Carmody

2nd ,, Mr Charles Hall-Penny

The Hudson Prize for j" Mr James A. Macullagh Medical Cases ( Mr Henry Sherrard

18 7 8

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr Thomas E. Lingard 2nd ,, Mr Lucas Middleton

Junior Surgical Prize — Mr William Watson Pike ,, ,, Mr Charles Adams

1st Medical Prize — Mr William S. Leckey 2nd ,, Mr Armitage Forbes

18 7 9

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr George E. Fisher 2nd ,, Mr William Watson Pike

Ist Jun. Surg. Prize — Mr Alfred Miller 1st Medical Prize — Mr Thomas T. Eeynolds 2nd ,, Mr Wm. S. Gordon

58

PRIZEMEN OF THE HOSPITAL.

18 8 0

Senior Surgical Prize — Mr Arthur H. Murray Junior ,, Mr John Mallins

1st Medical Prize — Mr Edward E. Lennon 2nd ,, lifr Austin Cockle

Surgical Prize for Hospital Cases in Memory of Deputy Surgeon- General, Mr J. H. Porter, who died at Cahul, January 9th, 1880 — Mr Alfred Miller, Mr William W. Pike (presented by L. H. Ormsby).

18 8 1

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr J. Allman Powell

2nd

Mr Howard Acheson

3rd

Mr F. T. Porter Newell

1st Jr

Mr Timothy Howard

2nd

yy

Mr James Bolger

3rd

Mr Percy Newell

1 st Medical

Prize-

—Mr Eeginald Mosley

2nd

yy

Mr Donald St. John Grant

3rd

yy

Mr Macnamara Williamson

18 8 2

1st Sen. Med. Prize — Mr J. E. Mallins 2nd ,, Mr J. Eeardon

Senior Surgical Prize Mr J. E. Mallins ,, ,, Mr J. Bolger

Junior Surgical Prize Mr W. H. Eobinson » Mr Edwin G. Newell

18 8 3

1st Sen. Med. Prize— Mr W. H. Waterfield iind „ Mr E: T. King

1st Sen. Surg. Prize— Mr Samuel Hickson 2nd ,, Mr H. B. Eobinson

2nd ,, Mr John A. Johns

let Jun. Surg. Prize— Mr George Green 2nd ,, Mr Eiehard Loeper

2nd „ Mr John Marshall Day

PRIZEMEN OF THE HOSPITAL.

59

18 8 4

Ist Sen. Med. Prize — Mr Samuel G. Hickson* 2nd ,, Mr John Marshall Day

1st Sen. Surg. Prize Mr B. J. Achesou ,, ,, Mr Edwin G. Newell

2nd ,, Mr Graham Kennedy

1st Jun. Surg. Prize — Mr Richard Peunefather 2nd ,, Mr George Gray

18 8 5

1st Medical Prize — Mr Henry Walter

2nd ,, Mr John T. Russell

Senior Surgical Prize Mr John T. Russell ,, ,, Mr William Taylor

,, ,, Mr Richard Penn efather

Ist Jun. Surg. Prize — Mr Alfred Bewley 2nd ,, Mr Allan Mahood

18 8 6

1st Medical Prize — Mr Richard M. Hugo 2nd ,, Mr Wilfred Nickson

3rd ,, Mr William J. Taylor

Ist Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr Richard M. Hugo 2nd ,, Mr William J. Scott

Ist Jun. Surg. Prize — Mr Thomas Galivan 2nd ,, Mr Berkley Falkner

1 8 8 7.

1st Medical Prize — Mr H. P. Sloggett 2nd ,, Mr William Bagot

1st Sen. Surg. Prize — Mr Thomas Galivan 2nd ,, Mr Alfred Bewley

1st Jun. Surg. Prize — Mr Oliver L. Robinson 2nd ,, Mr George Hepenstal

,, „ Mr E. H. Hawthorne

• First Place Army Medical Examination, 1885.

EESIDENT SURGICAL PUPILS FROM 1841.

a meeting of the Medical Board, held October 8th, 1830, it was resolved that a Eesident Surgical Pupil ' should be appointed.

Nov., 1841 — George Alloway May, 1842 — William Gilbert May, 1843 — Eawdon Macnamara May, 1844 — William Shaw Duckett

Dec., 1845 — John Eeddy, subsequently House Surgeon, Mont- real General Hospital, 1850

July, 1846 — Isaac D’Olier, subequently residing in London Aug., 1846 — Alexander Parker, obiit Mar., 1847 — Eichard Gregory, Finglas Lunatic Asylum July, 1847 — E. Leeson, obiit Oct,, 1847 — L. T. Cumberbatch, London April, 1848 — John Halahan, Artillery, 1849, obiit Oct., 1848 — E. Leeper, subsequently Tinnahely Dispensary, obiit

May, 1849 — E. Bryan, Gold Coast, 1851, obiit Oct., 1849 — G. Halahan

April, 1850 — Eobert Murray, Eockcorry Dispensary, obiit, 1854 Oct., 1850 — George Hjmdman, obiit

May, 1851 — A. C. Derinzy, Hon. East India Company Service, 1851

,, W. Sheil, Malahide, obiit Oct., 1851 — Joshua H. Porter, Army Medical Service, 97th Eegiment, obiit Cabul, 1881 April, 1852 — E. Wallis, Calcutta, obiit

Oct., 1852 — E. Boxwell, Hon. East India Company Service by examination, obiit

KESIDENT SURGICAL PUPILS.

61

Jan., 1853 — G. E.. Hinde, Ai-my Medical Service, Deputy Surgeon-General and C.B., Bombay, 1887 Mar., 1853 — James Hornidge Finnemore, Army Medical Ser- vice, Brigade Surgeon, retired 1887 Oct , 1853 — John E, Kirkpatrick, residing Dublin, 1886

May, 1854 — H. Gregory, Army Medical Service, obiit Oct., 1854 — H. C. Herbert, Army Medical Service, Plymouth, Brigade Surgeon, retired 1887 Feb., 1855 — J. Walsh, Army Medical Service May, 1855 — John Lamb, Army Medical Service Oct., 1855 — James Wilson, Army Medical Service May, 1856 — William E. Kerans, Army Medical Service, Bri- gade Surgeon, retired 1887 Oct., 1856 — John Mahony, Army Medical Service May, 1857 — Ewd. A. Gibbon, Surgeon 7th Eoyal Fusiliers, 1858 Oct., 1857 — Benjamin Hinde, Brigade Surgeon, retired, Ply- mouth, 1887

April, 1858 — Henry Cramer Guinness

Oct., 1858 — Francis Egan

April, 1853 — Lawrence Berry Mulock

At a meeting of Medical Board, held 29tb October, 1 859, it was decided that two resident pupils should be appointed for six months duty, a senior resident pupil and an assistant resident pupil.

Oct., 1859 — Eichard Newman Townshend ,, John E. Keegan, assistant April, 1860 — John E, Keegan, senior pupil „ J. B. Mulock, assistant

Oct., 1860 — Eobert Jephson Peed, senior, obiit 1881 ,, John Walsh, assistant

April, 1861 — John B. Mulock, senior, obiit 1885 ,, W. H. Symes, assistant

Oct., 1861 — John Foot ,, J. Ball

April, 18C2 — Cornelius Sampson ,, John Eiddick

62

RESIDENT SURGICAL PURILS.

Oct., 1862 — Edward Percival „ G. T. Courtenay

April, 1863 — Lionel II. Smith

April, 1863 — From this date each surj^eon in rotation nomi- nated an apprentice for the office of resident pupil.

April, 1863 — George Churchill, apprentice to Mr Macnamara Oct, 1863 — Mr Walter G. Smith, Physician to Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, 1887.

„ Mr G. H. Whai’ton

April, 1864 — Mr Stanhope Adam, apprentice of Mr Porter Oct., 1864 — Mr E. W. Green April, 1865 — Mr Robert E. Duke

Oct., 1865 — Mr John Owens, nominated by Mr P. C. Smyly May, 1866 — Edward I. Scott, nominated by Mr Macnamara

Resolution of Medical Board, April 28, 1866. Resolved — “ That the resolution of August 26, 1852, be revived, and that an assistant resident pupil be appointed to write out hospital cases and assist the senior resident.”

May 1, 1866 — George Roe Carter, appointed assistant resident ,, Leopold Barnes

Nov. 1, 1866 — Arthur Russell

,, Robert Tredenick, obiit

May 1, 1867 — John T. Lough, London, 1886

,, Edward J. Cooke, Birmingham, 1886

,, Francis C. Crossle, Newry, 1886

Nov. 1, 1867 — John Bird

,, T. G. Kerans

,, Horatio E. Maun sell

May 1, 1868 — Mr Oscar T. Woods, Medical Superintendent Ivillarney Asylum, 1887 ,, Mr Joseph Smyth

,, Mr L. H. Ormsby, vice Woods

Nov. 1, 1868 — Mr Brooke Wolseley, resident

,, Mr Charles Sibthorpe, Brigade Surgeon, Indian

Medical Service, 1887

RESIDENT SURGICAL PUPILS.

63

May 1, 1869— Hugh Stoney, Abbey leix, 1887 ,, Joseph Neligan, Tralee, 1887

Nov. 1, 1869 — Eobert Drury, Army Medical Service, 1887

,, John Dallas Edge, V.C. Army Medical Service

May 1, 1870 — Nathaniel Mayne, Surgeon Co. Longford Infir- mary, 1887

,, William H. Middleton, Surgeon Westmeath Co.

Infirmary, 1887

Nov. 1, 1870 — Cecil Bushe, Army Medical Service

,, Hay man Thornhill, Army Medical Service

May 1, 1871 — Mr Bowers

,, Mr M'Clintock

Nov. 1, 1871 — Mr Edward Levinge, in Christ Church, N.Z., 1887 ,, Mr Finney

May 1, 1872 — Mr Phineas F. Tuthill, Army Medical Service ,, Mr Samuel Morris, obiit

Nov. 1, 1872 — Mr A. Scott

,, Mr George Gray, obiit

May 1, 1873 — Mr John J. Middleton

,, Mr Eawdon Macnamara, obiit

Nov. 1, 1873 — Mr Eobert B. Smith

,, Mr David Drummond, Physician to Newcastle

Infirmary, 1887

May 1, 1874 — Mr William Clibborn

,, Mr Eichard Marley Blake

Nov. 1, 1874 — Mr Charles Eoe, obiit ,, Mr Eichard Duckworth

May 1, 1875 — Mr T. Falkiner, in practice Cape of Good Hope, 1887

,, Mr Jonathan Hill Malone

Nov. 1, 1875 — Mr Samuel S. Swain ,, Mr Joseph Atkinson

May 1, 1876 — Mr Frank Fisher ,, Mr John Patterson

Nov. 1,1876 — Mr Eobert Gordon

,, Mr James A. McCuUagh

64

KESIDENX SURGICAL PURILS.

May 1, 1877 — Mr Armstrong

,, Mr John J. Walsh

Nov. I, 1877 — Mr Blacker C. Powell ,, Mr Lucas Middleton

May 1, 1878 — Mr George E. Fisher

,, Mr James II, Parkinson

Nov, 1, 1887 — Mr Macnamara Williamson

,, Mr T. E. Lingard, Army Medical Service

May 1, 1879 — M. Fleming, ohiit

,, Mr Charles S. Barry

Nov. 1, 1879 — Mr John C. Cronyn

,, Mr Anthony H. Morgan, Army Medical Service

May 1, 1880 — Mr William Falkiner

,, Mr William Watson Pike, Army Medical Service „ Mr Alfred Miller

Nov 1, 1880 — Mr Frank Porter Newell ,, Mr Arthur Murray

May 1, 8811 — Mr Travers Smith ,, Mr James Carson

Nov. 1, 1881 — Mr E. Miller

,, Mr J. E. Mallins, Army Medical Service

Eesolution by Mr Ormsby, April 13, 1882, that the period of resident pupils be three months, allowing eight to bo a^ipointed in the year.

May 1, 1882 — Mr Frank Campbell ,, Mr Francis C. Eoe Aug. 1, 1882 — Mr William Johnson ,, Mr J. J. Todd Nov. 1, 1882— Mr John O’Beirne

,, Mr Charles II. Mulcahy ,, Mr C. W. Bennett Feb, 1, 1883 — ^Ir A. J. Boyd

,, Mr William Delahunt May 1, 1883 — Mr William Scott ,, Mr Alfred Manning

RESIDENT SURGICAL PUPILS.

65

Aug. 1, 1883 — Mr John B. Buchanan, Ai-my Medical Service ,, Mr W. G. Conner

Nov. I, 1883 — Mr Eowland Scovell

,, Mr Graham Kennedy, Naval Medical Service

Feb. 1, 1884 — MrWalter John Slaughter, Naval Medical Service ,, Mr J. J. Bussell, Army Medical Service

May 1, 1884 — Mr Frederick Martin, obiit ,, Mr George Macnamara

Aug. 1, 1884 — Mr George Greene

,, Mr Hugh Whelan, obiit

Nov. 1, 1884 — Mr Eichard Hugo ,, Mr James Craig

Feb. 14, 1885 — Mr Thomas Henry Wilson ,, Mr Sampson Hope Newland

May 1, 1885 — Mr William Taylor ,, Mr George Faris

„ Mr B. B. Ferrar ,, Mr A. Clarke Aug, 1, 1885 — Mr W. Wynne ,, Mr W. Nicksou

Nov. 1, 1885 — Mr E. Fraser ,, Mr W. Scott Feb. 1, 1886 — Mr A. Bell

,, Mr St. George Gray

May 1, 1886 — Mr William Moyle O’Connor ,, Mr Eichard D. Pennefather

Aug, 1, 1886 — Mr Edward C. Brabazon

,, Mr Henry Johnson Hildige

Nov. 1, 1886 — Mr A, Ogilvie

,, Mr E. Slaughter

Feb. 1, 1887 —Mr John Eyan ,, Mr Alfred Austin

May 1, 1887 — Mr J. A. Burland ,, Mr A. M'Farland

Aug. 1, 1887 — Mr Nelson D. Walter Nov. 1, 1887 — Mr Tenison Lyons

,, Mr Herbert E. Taylor

E

CLINICAL CLERKS SINCE 1844.

October,

Dec.,

N Friday, tlie 28th September, 1828, it was resolved that a clinical clerk should be appointed for 12 months, to attend in the medical ward with the physician.

1844 — Mr M'Donnell, appointed by Dr Stokes ,, Mr Moore, appointed by Dr Lees

1845— Mr John Walsh, appointed by Dr Stokes Mr Henry P. Browne, Delgany, Co. Wicklow,

May 1, 1846, to i 1887.

May 1, 1847 |

1847 — Mr E. D. Lyons, appointed by the Board for six months (obiit, Merrion Square, 1887) April 29, 1848 — Mr E. D. Lyons, re-appointed for six months Oct. 28, 1848 — Mr O’Eeilly, appointed for six months (St.

Louis, U.S.A., 1887).

May 5th, 1849 — Mr Murray, appointed for six months 1850 — Mr Doyle, appointed by the Board

1852 — Mr Henry Baird, appointed for six months

1852 — Mr William (now Sir William) Miller (Londonderry, 1887)

1853 — ^[r Joshua H. Porter

1853 — Mr G. L. Hinde

1854 — Mr U. Fitzmaui’ice

1854 — ]\Ir Arthur Samuels

1855 — Mr Andrew O’Kolly Nolan ,, Mr Henry C. Herbert

1855 — Mr Charles James Egan 1856,]Mr Benjamin Borland (Brigade-Surgeon, re- j tired 1887)

1856 ' Mr Caleb S. Wills (C.B., Surgeon-Major, 1887)

On April 2bth, 1857, the Medical Board, on the application of Dr. Lees, decided to appoint two clinical clerks instead of one

On same date Mr Kerans and Mr Sherridan were appointed for the ensuing six mouths.

Nov. 1, 1857 — Mr James Wilson, Army Medical Staff

Oct.

30,

April

29,

Oct.

28,

May 5th,

Oct.

26,

Feb.

11,

Nov.

27,

May

1,

Nov.

1,

May

1,

Nov.

1,

May

1,

Nov.

1,

May

1,

Nov.

1,

CLINICAL CLERKS.

67

May 1, Oct. 23, Nov. 18,

May 28,

Oct. 29, May 28,

Oct. 27, May 4, Nov. 1, May 1 , Nov. 1, May 1, Nov. 1, May 1, Nov. 1, Mav 1, Nov. 1, June 30,

Nov. 1, April 26,

Nov. 1, May 1, Nov. 1,

J }

April 24, Oct. 30, May 1, Oct 1.3, April 20, Nov. 1,

1858 — Mr Gilbert de Poulton Nicholson

1858 — Mr Baxter and Mr P. C. Smyly were appointed

1858 — Mr P. Quinlan appointed, vicel^. C. Smyly,

resigned

1859 — Mr Charles Monck, appointed by Drs. Stokeii

and Lees

1859 — Mr Francis Egan, appointed by Dr. Lees

1860 — Mr E. E. Floyd, appointed by Dr. Stokes for

six months

1860 — Mr Wm. E. Kynsey

1861 — Mr Wm. Edmundson Dudley

1861 — Mr Arthur W. Foot

1862 — Mr William (now Sir William, 1887) Stokes

1862 — Mr John B. Mulock

1863 — Mr Walter G. Smith

1863 — Mr Henry J. Gogarty

1864 — Mr J. M. Finny

1864 — Mr S. Murdoch

1865 — Mr E. L. Edgeworth

1865 — Mr John Todhunter

1866 — Mr George Edward Dobson, appointed for si.x

months

1866 — Mr John Wm. Moore

1867 — Mr Eoe Carter, appointed by Drs. Stokes and

Hudson

1867 — Mr Edward W. Collins

1868 — Mr John Barton

1868 — Mr Thomas G. Kerans

,, Mr John Bird

,, Mr Charles Sibthorpe

1869 — Mr Brooke Wolseley, nominated by Dr. Stokes

1869 — Mr J. Nelligan nominated

1870 — Mr E. V. Foss

1870 — Mr W. E. Murphy nominated 187 1 — Mr Cecil Bushe appointed

1871 — Mr William J. Smyly

68

CLINICAL CLERKS.

On April 25th, 1872, the physicians (Drs Stokes and Foot) arranged to appoint three clinical clerks, one senior and two j unior,

April 25, 1872 — Mr H. M allins, senior ,, ,, Mr M'Munn, junior

,, ,, Mr Whitaker, do.

Oct. 24, 1872 — Mr Charles A. Cooper, senior ,, ,, Mr Richard N. Stoker, junior

,, ,, Mr Wm. Walter, do

Apiil, 1873 — Mi' Kendal M. Franks Oct. 30, 1873 — Mr Kendal Franks, senior ,, ,, Mr Marcus Given, 2nd, ohiit

,, ,, Mr Leland Robinson, 3rd.

April 24, 1874 — Mr William Owen, senior ,, ,, Mr C. C. Fitzsimon, 2nd

,, ,, Mr O’Flaherty, 3rd

Oct. 29, 1874 — Mr Moran, senior

,, ,, Mr David Drummond, 2nd

,, ,, Mr Plowman, 3rd

April 24, 1875 — Mr John H. Armstrong, senior ,, ,, Mr George R. Deeper, 2nd

Oct. 21, 1875 — Mr Gilbert Lynch, senior ,, ,, Mr Sydney Taylor, 2nd

April 13, 1876 — Mr Clement Mallins, senior ,, ,, Mr James A. M'Cullagh

Oct. 26, 1876 — Mr Blacker Powell, senior ,) ,, Mr J. Atkinson, 2nd

April 24, 1877 — Mr Robert O’Callaghan ,, ,, Mr Walter Carson

Oct 18, 1877 — Air Robert Gordon April 25, 1878 — Air Clement llaniertoa ,, ,, Air George B. White

Oct. 24, 1878 — Air Wm. S. Lecky

n ,, Air Lucas Aliddleton

April 24, 1879 — Air Edward Lennon }> ,, Mr Reginald Mosley

CLINICAL CLEUKS.

Oct. 30, >»

April £9, >>

Oct. 28,

> )

April 28,

Oct. 27, April 1 5,

• %

Oct. 26.

> >

April 26, >>

Oct. 25,

J »

April 24.

n

Oct. 30, }}

April 30, })

Oct. 29,

April 29, > )

Nov. 1, ^lay 1,

n

Nov. 1,

n

1879 — Mr W. S. Gordon

,, Mr George de J. Patterson

1880 — Mr Austin Cockle

,, Mr M'Namara Williamson

1880 — Mr Donald Grant ,. Mr A. M. Archer

1881 — Mr Dutch ,, Mr Moore

1881 — Mr Piordan

1882 — Mr James Tandy Bolger Mr H. W. Smart

1882 — Mr George Lawder

,, Mr Thomas C. Moore

1883 — Mr Samuel G. Hickson ,, Mr Robert Morrow

1883 — Mr John M. Day ,, Mr B. J. Acheson

1884 — Mr Lambert ,, Mr Robinson

1884 — Mr W. J. Slaughter ,, Mr Henry Walter

1 885 — Mr James Craig •

,, Mr Newland

1885 — Mr Richard Hugo ,, Mr B. B. Ferrar

1886 — Mr W. Scott

,, Mr W. Nickson

1886 — Mr Edward C. Brabazon ,, Mr St. George Gray

1887 — Mr W. P. Wynne

,, Mr Ernest Slaughter ,, Mr A. Ogilvie

1887 — Mr John Ryan ,, Mr Harry Johnson Hildige

LIST

OF

PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

TO THE

MEATH HOSPITAL.

FROM ITS FOUNDATION, 1 753, TO 1 887.

If I'l'

I original surgeons when the Hospital was opened on

WaY'B-V,;/// aT- _ n r. iir_. .1. ^

M# the Coomhe, March 2nd, 1753 : —

1753 Alexander Cunningham.

1753 Eedmond Boat.

1753 David M'Bride.

1753 Henry Hawkshaw.

1751 Dr. Thomas Brooke, appointed physician.

1754 Dr. Francis Hutchinson, appointed physician.

1754 James Mills, appointed surgeon.

1754 Henry Mapletoft, appointed surgeon.

1755 William Vance, surgeon, vice Mapletoft (?)

1756 Dr. William Patten, physician.

1756 Michael White, surgeon.

1760 Dr. John Donaldson, physician.

1767 Dr. John Charles Fleury, physician, vice Dr.

Donaldson.

1767 Mr. Linley, surgeon.

1770, Apr. 26, Dr. Daniel Cooke, physician, vice Dr. Patten, deceased.

1 7 7 6, Mar. 3 1 , Israel Dead, surgeon.

FIIYSICIAXS AXD SURGEONS.

71

1777 Arthur Winter, surgeon.

1781, June 22, Dr. Francis Hopkins, physician, vice Dr. Cooke, resigned.

1781, June 26, George O’Brien, surgeon, vice Hawkshaw, deceased.

1782, June 6,Pati’ick Cusack Eoney, surgeon, vice Cunningham,

deceased.

1784, Mar. 19, James Scott, surgeon, vice James Mills, deceased.

1785, Apr. 20, Dr. Thomas Evory, physician, vice Dr. Hopkins,

appointed to Mercer’s Hospital (apprenticed to Mr Vance, August 1, 1775).

1786, Feb. 7, Dr. Edmund Cullen, physician, vice Dr. Fleury,

resigned.

1787, Dec. 10, Benjamin Wilson, surgeon, viceZ. Scott, deceased.

1788, July 4, Dr. Daniel Bryan, physician, vice Dr. Cullen,

resigned.

1790, Sept. 29, Solomon Eichards, surgeon, vice A. Winter, deceased.

1793, Mar. 2 3, William Dease, surgeon, vice William Vance, deceased.

1793, Dee. 7, Dr. Thomas Bell, physician, vice Dr. Evoiy, ap- pointed master of the Lying-in Hospital.

1 795, Sept.l5, Eichard Dease, surgeon, vice Israel Eead, de- ceased (apprenticed to Mr. Eichards).

1798, Sept.28, Philip Crampton, surgeon, vice William Dease, deceased (ajDprenticed to Mr. Eichards, Nov. 8, 1792).

1802, Feb. 5, Cusack Eoney, surgeon, vice G. O’Brien, resigned

(apprenticed to P. C. Eoney, March 25, 1795).

1803, Feb. 1 8, Dr. Francis Barker, physician, vice Dr. Bryan,

resigned.

1806, Mar. 29, Dr. Thomas Egan, physician, vice Dr. Bell, re- signed.

1809, Mar. 2, Thomas Hewson, surgeon, vice B. Wilson (ap- prenticed to Mr. Eichards, May 1, 1801).

1809, May 21, Dr. George Frank Todderick, physician, vice Dr. Barker, resigned.

72

PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.

1811, Nov. 12, John Cheyue, L.K.Q.O.P., physician, vice Dr. Todderick, resigned.

1813, Apr. 2, Thomas Eoney, surgeon, vice P. C. Eoney, resigned (apprenticed to P. C. Eoney, February 2, 1808).

1817, Oct. 14, Patrick Harkan, physician, vice Dr. Cheyne, re-

signed, on appointment to House of Industry Hospitals.

1818, Dec. 14, Dr. Whitley Stokes, physician, vice Dr. Egan,

deceased.

1819, Mar. 5, Eawdon Macnamara, surgeon, vice E. Dease,

deceased.

1819, Nov. 20, William Henry Porter, surgeon, vice Solomon Eichards, deceased (apprenticed to Mr. P. Crampton.)

1821, July 31, Eobert James Graves, physician, viceDv. Harkan, resigned.

1825, Dec. 18, Maurice Collis, surgeon, vice Thomas Eoney, de-

ceased (apprenticed to Thomas Hewson).

1826, Jan. 7, Dr. William Stokes, physician, vice Dr. Whitley

Stokes, resigned.

1831, Nov. 10, Josiah Smyly, surgeon, vice Thomas Hewson.

deceased (apprenticed to Mr. P. Crampton). 1836, Dec. 10, Francis Eynd, surgeon, vice Eawdon Macnamara, deceased (apprenticed to Mr. P. Crampton). 1843, Dec. 28, Cathcart Lees, physician, vice Dr. Graves, resigned. 1849, Sept. 8, George Hornidge Porter, surgeon, vice Cusack Eoney, deceased (apprenticed to J. Smyly).

1851, Oct. 11, Maurice Henry Collis, surgeon, vice Maurice Collis, resigned (apprenticed to Maurice Collis, February, 1842).

1858, July 3, Thomas Ledwich, surgeon, vice Sir Philip Cramp- ton, Bart., deceased.

1858, Oct. 13, James H. Wharton, surgeon, vice Thomas Led- wich, deceased (apprenticed to Maurice Collis). 1861, Feb. 2, Dr. Alfred Hudson, physician, vice Cathcart Lees, resigned.

PHYSICIANS AND SUKGEONS.

73

1861, July 13, Philip Crampton Smyly, surgeon, vice William H.

Porter, deceased (apprenticed to Sir P. Crampton).

1861, Aug. 7, Pawdon Macnamara, surgeon, viceY. Pynd, de- ceased (apprenticed to Sir P. Crampton).

1864, Feb. 2, William Stokes, jun., surgeon, vice Josiali Smyly, deceased.

1868, Apr. 4, William Stokes, jun., resigned, to go to Eichmond Hospital.

1868, Apr. 11, James W. Stronge, surgeon, vice William Stokes, resigned.

1868, Nov. 13, James W. Stronge died.

1868, Nov. 21, Eobert P. White, surgeon, elected vice James W.

Stronge, deceased (apprenticed to Mr. J^ Smyly).

1869, Mar. 28, Maurice Henry Collis, surgeon for 18 years, died. 1869, Apr. 17, Eobert St. John Mayne, surgeon, vice Maurice

CoUes, deceased.

1871, Mar. 30, Dr. Alfred Hudson, physician, resigned.

1871, Apr. 8, Dr. Arthur Wynne Foot, elected physician, vice Alfred Hudson, resigned (apprenticed to Maurice H. CoUis).

1871, Dec. 16, Eobert St. John Mayne, surgeon, died.

1872, Feb. 6, Lambert Hepenstal Ormsby (apprenticed to

George Hornidge Porter), appointed surgeon, vice Eobert St. John Mayne, deceased.

1875, Apr. 1, Dr. William Stokes, physician, resigned.

1875, Apr. 8, Dr. John William Moore, physician, elected to post of physician, vice William Stokes, resigned. 1879, Apr. 13, Eobert Persse AYhite, surgeon, died.

1879, July 1, William J. Hepburn, surgeon, elected surgeon vice Eobert P. White, deceased.

LIST

OF

RESIDENT APOTHECARIES TO THE HOSPITAL.

From 1776 to 1887.

Mr Henry Crummer *Mr Edward Connell

*‘Mr James Brady

) J

nil' Luke Wall Mr James Dunn

.. Eesigned H Nov., 1786 .. Apj)ointed21 Nov. ,, Resigned 6 Aug., 1796 . . Appointed 6 Aug ,, Resigned 3 Dec., 1804 . . Appointed 3 Dec. ,, Resigned 18 July, 1806 . . Appointed 18 July, ,, Resigned 1808

Mr Francis Kelly Mr George Sharp Mr William IMulligan *Mr William Savage Mr George Field Mr Samuel Stratton, M. Mr H. P. Bell Mr Packenham

5?

Mr John J. Parr

.. 1809 to 1811 . . Appointed 1812 . . Appointed 1813 . . 1814 to 1816 . . 1816 to 1818 ►. 1819 to 1823

. . 1824 to 1825 . . Appointed 1826 Resigned 29 May,

. . Appointed 29 May, Died in office, Apr., (of bronchitis, after

1829

1862

33 years service)

* Apothecary anil llog-istrar,

APOTnECARlES.

< O

Mr Basil W. Anderson , , Appointed 28 Apr., 1862

,, Died in office, of consumption, Jan.,

1865

Mr W. II. Digges . . Appointed 13 Fel)., 1865

„ Designed 30 Dec., 1867

Mr George Hope ‘ . . Aj)pointed 13 Jan., 1868 „ Designed 13 Dec., 1869

Mr Frederick W. Burkett. . Appointed 17 Jan., 1870

,, Designed 10 July, 1876

Mr John B. Fisher . . Appointed 31 July, 1876 ,, Designed 27 Jan., 1879

From this date the post of apothecary and house surgeon was merged in one, owing to action taken by the Dublin Cor- poration .

Desident Surgeons and Apotuecaries.

Dr. William E. Crozier.

Appointed 24th Feb., 1879. Designed Dec., 1880.

Dr. Henry William Oulton.

Appointed 20th Jan., 1881. Designed 13th August, 1883. Dr. Frank Porter Newell.

Appointed 27th August, 1883. Still in office, 1887.

ASSISTANT CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN TO THE HOSPITAL,

Fkom 1861 TO 1870.

Mr Arthur W. Foot, elected 28th September, 1861, resigned 30th November, 1867.

Eesolution passed by tlie Medical Board on the above date —

Resolved — “That tlie Medical Board of the Meath Hospital accept Dr Foot’s resignation as Curator of the Museum with regret, and thank him for the many proofs he has left of the efficient manner in which he had discharged the duties of the appointment.”

Mr Francis Crossle, elected May 29th, 1869, resigned

June 30, 1870.

(N'o aijpoiiitmcut made .since the above date.)

LIST OF

SECRETARIES AND REGISTRARS

TO THE

MEATH HOSPITAL

From 1796 to 1887.

1796-1797 — Mr E. ConnelF' 1798-1805 — !Mr J. Brady*'

1806 — Mr Luke Wall*'

1807-1810— Mr J. A. Bolton 1 8 1 1-1 8 12— Mr J.L. Monnett 1813-1815 — Mr W. Flinter 1816 — Mr W. Savage*'

1817-1819— Mr A Maiben

1820 — Mr W.J. Smith,

jun.

1821 — Mr W. M'Cullagh

1822 — Mr R. Whaley

1 8 2 3 - 1 8 2 4 — Mr W. M ‘Cullag h 1825—1828 — Mr E. Matthews 1829-183 1— Mr J. Ellis 1 835-1 836- Mr B. W. Clarke 1837-1845— Mr R. Shaw 1 845-1881 — Mr E. B. Stanley, appointed 29th December, 1845, resigned February 1, 1881

Mr Francis Penrose, appointed 20th January, 1881, still in office, October, 1887

* Registrar and Apothecary.

TREASURERS FROM 1754 TO 1887.

1754-1765 — Mr Joseph Terry, Braithwaite Street, Dublin 1765-1768 — Mr John Joshua Pirn, Usher’s Island 1768-1770 — Mr Joseph Pike, Meath Street 1770-1774 — Mr Richard Blood, Meath Street 1774-1775 — Charles Percival, Esq., Digges Street 1776-1810 — Arthur Guinness, Esq., James’s Gate, Dublin 1811-1870 — LaTouche & Co., Castle Street 1870-1885 — Munster Bank 188 5, Aug. 5th — Royal Bank

LIST OF

MATRONS AND LADY SUPERINTENDENTS

TO THE

MEATH HOSPITAL,

From 1800 to 1887.

Mrs A. Gower, Matron, 1800-1807 Mrs Catherine Bolton, Matron, 1808-1810 Mrs Mary Maiben, Matron, 1811-1830

Mrs Sarah Walker, Matron, 1831-1S62, resigned Ist June, 1862 Mrs C. M'Donnell, Matron, elected 26th May, 1862. (Mrs C.

M'Donnell married Mr Enright 18th October, 1834)

Mrs Enright (nee M'Donnell) resigned 28th September, 1874 Mrs E. Jones, Matron, elected 9th November, 1874, resigned 28th January, 1884

Miss Ellinor Lyons, appointed Lady Superintendent of Nurses and Matron, 11th February, 1884, still in office, October, 1887

RULES AND REGULATIONS

OF THE

MEATH HOSPITAL.

{Drai07i up and agreed to, 1776).

a meeting of the subscribing physicians and surgeons of the Meath Hospital,

Eesolved, — “ That the two physicians and six surgeons of the Meath Hospital shall constitute a Board, to be called the Medical Board of the said Hospital, who shall have sole dominion and control over every matter, except what relates to the application of the funds of the Hospital, and that any four of the Members of the said Board shall constitute a quorum.” — 1776.

RULES

FOR THE

Pfbira:! §i}urir of tin piospitel

I.

That the gentlemen attending the Hospital shall consist of two physicians, six senior surgeons, and a number of assistant surgeons, not exceeding three.

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II.

That each physician shall attend for the space of two months, alternately, twice a week, viz., on Monday and Friday at Eleven o’clock for externs, and for interns as often as may be necessary.

III.

That two surgeons shall attend together monthly, beginning with the eldest senior surgeon and eldest assistant surgeon, and so on in rotation. That the hours of attendance shall be from 8 to 10 o’clock from the 1st May to the 1st September, and from the 1st September to the Ist May, from 9 to 11 ; and that the door shall be shut at 9 in the summer half-year, and at 1 0 in the winter.

IV.

That no gentleman, physician or surgeon, shall change the hour of attendance, nor shall absent himself from his duty, ex- cept in cases of sickness or extraordinary emergency of busines.*^, and in such circumstances he must provide one of the other gen- tlemen to attend for him.

V.

That the election of all future physicians and surgeons shall be vested solely in the Medical Board, and that a majority of voices shall determine in this as well as everything relative to every part of the business of the house.

VI.

That assistant surgeons shall have no power of receiving intern patients, or performing capital operations.

VII.

That upon a vacancy of a physician or surgeon, the remain- ing physician or physicians and surgeons shall hereby have power to proceed to the election of a physician or surgeon to fill up such vacancy— that of a surgeon being always filled up by ballot.

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VIII.

That the apprentices of the gentlemen who are at present surgeons of the Hospital shall, upon application, have a preference to become surgeons to the said Hospital.

IX.

That the apprentices do attend and prepare dressings at the Hospital every morning, an hour before the Surgeons’ hour of coming.

X.

That each apprentice during his attendance on the Hospital shall behave himself with decency, regularity, and the utmost tenderness and humanity to the patients, as well as with the greatest respect and obedience to the physicians and surgeons in attendance ; and that no apprentice shall attempt to carry medicines of any sort from the Hospital to any patient whatso- ever but by the order or permission of the physician or surgeon in attendance ; and that every apprentice transgressing any part of this rule shall be discharged from the Hospital, and never more permitted to attend it.

XI.

That each surgeon shall have liberty to bring two apprentices to the Hospital — and no more — who are to be indented for five years and their names enrolled as the attending apprentices of the hoiLse.

XII.

Tliat wards shall be appointed for physical and surgical patients, and that a small ward shall be appropriated solely to general patients, and that such patients shall not be admitted casually as they offer — except in most urgent circumstances — but that a certain number shall be laid under a course of mercury at a time, and so succeeded by another set when the preceding patients are discharged, and that no physician or surgeon shall, after this, form or mix patients indiscriminately in the different wards.

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XIII.

That each patient recommended by a subscriber shall be entered in a book, and the name of the person recommending him or her, and that the patients shall be admitted in order as they have applied, except in cases of very extraordinary necessity, and that the recommendation of a subscriber shall have the preference to any other.

XIY.

That there shall be always beds kept apart for immediate accidents.

XV.

That every gentleman signing these rules shall consider him- self as bound in honour to promote both the interest and reputation of the Hospital as much as he can ; and if any gentle- man shall, from repeated omissions of duty, or wanton neglect in the regular attendance, bring any reflection on the Hospital, the Medical Board shall be summoned to meet, who shall have a power of continuing or removing him as they shall judge proper.

XVI.

(a). That no capital operation shall be performed till determined upon by a consultation of the Medical Board, and that all such operations are to be performed by the surgeon who admits the patient, and not by any other without his consent ; and if he decline, by the next in seniority.

(i). That no capital operation shall be performed till deter- mined on by a consultation of the Medical Board, and that all such operations shall be performed in rotation, beginning with the senior surgeon, and that each surgeon shall attend the patient he operated on so long as the patient requires chirurgical assistance.

XVII.

That the Medical Board shall have a power of making by-laws from time to time, to be detei-mined by a majority of voices.

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XVIII.

That no Board whatever shah, be held (except in consultation on a patient) without the member requiring it giving three days jirevious notice thereof in writing, signed by the Secretary, expressive of the purport of such Board, as also of the hour of meeting, which shall be between the hours often in the morning and three in the afternoon, and for which summons the Secretary shall have the authority of one or more members of the said Board, to be hereafter entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, as also the names of the President, pro tempore, and of tlie members attending, who shall undersign the same.

Francis Hopkins, M.D.

John Charles Fleury, M.D. Daniel Cooke, M.D.

A. C. Cunningham, George O’Brien, William Vance, James Mills, Israel Bead, Cusack Roney,

Thomas Roney, Patrick Roney, James Scott,

S. Richards,

H. Hawkshaw, Art. Winter.

NAMES OE THE MEDICAL ATTENDANTS

ON THE OPENING OF THE

NEW MEATH HOSPITAL,

IN

HEYTESBURY STREET, DUBLIN,

December 24, 1822.

1798 Philip Crampton, Sur.- Genbral

1802 Cusack Roney 1809 Thomas Hewson, A.B.

1813 Thomas Roney, A.B.

1818 Whitley Stokes, M.D.

1819 Rawdon Macnamara 1819 Wm. IIenry Porter, A.M.

1821 Robert J. Graves, M.D.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

OF THE

MEDICAL BOAED OE THE MEATH HOSPITAL,

Agreed to on the Opening of the New Hospital, Long Lane, Heyteshury Street, December 24, 1822.

I.

Tlie Physicians and Surgeons of the Hospital shall constitute a Board, to he called “ The Medical Board of the Meath Hospital,” three to be a quorum.

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II.

Of this Board, the senior member present shall be always (ex officio) Chairman, and the Junior Surgeon shall be always Secretaiy.

III.

There shall be a regular meeting of the Board on the last Friday of every month for the transaction of ordinary business at any hour the Surgeon of the month shall appoint between the hours of nine o’clock a.m. and two o’clock p.m., and summonses for the meeting shall be issued by the Secretary at least three clear days previously, stating the business proposed to be transacted on that day, and no business but that specified in the summons can be legally entered into.

IV.

It shall be competent for any one member of the Board to call an extraordinary meeting at any time— he giving three clear days’ notice, and specifying in the notice the object of the meeting.

V.

A.11 summonses for meetings of the Board (except for consultation and those called by individuals according to the fourth general Eule) shall be issued bj'’ the Secretary and authenticated by his signature.

VI.

The Chairman of every meeting of the Board shall affix his signature to the proceedings of the meeting immediately pre- ceding, and also affix his signature to the proceedings of the day as written in a rough book, to be afterwards copied in a fair one.

VII.

Attendance. — Each Physician shall attend for the space of three months alternately at the hour appointed for the treat- ment of extern patients, and for intern as often as he may thiiik proper.

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VIII.

The Surgeons shall take care of the surgical wards of the Hospital in rotation monthly, and the duty of the Surgeon shall be, during his month of attendance, to mark the diet hooks of the intern patients ; to attend to all accidents admitted into the house ; to see that every patient is attended to and prescribed for ; to inspect the internal economy of the house, as to cleanli- ness, ventilation, etc. ; to observe that the nurses ai’e sober, orderly, and attentive to the patients; to remark the general conduct of the apprentices, as to diligence, regularity, and attention, and to report the result of his observations at the monthly meetings of the Board. And during the month succeeding that of his intern duty, he shall superintend the dressing of such extern patients as shall require it; he shall see that the most rigid economy is practised in the use of such medicine as may be necessary ; he shall sign all orders for bandages, etc., required for extern patients ; he shall instruct the apprentices and pupils in the treatment of ulcers, etc., and in the performance of the minor operations in surgery ; and all the apprentices who dress the extern patients shall be under his control.

IX.

The Surgeon for the month shall receive all recommendatious for internal surgical patients, and admit or reject them, and, having admitted a patient, he shall continue to attend the case till its termination.

X.

Apprentices. — The apprentices of the Surgeons of the Hospital shall be permitted to attend at the Hospital during the five years of their apprenticeship, and not afterwards, unless by special permission of the Medical Board, signified in writing.

XI.

The apprentices shall attend at the Hospital and prepare the dressings half an hour before the doors are opened.

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XII.

Each apprentice during his attendance on the Hospital shall behave himself with decency, regularity, and the utmost tender- ness and humanity to the patients, as well as with the greatest respect and obedience to all the Physicians and Surgeons ; and no apprentice shall attempt to carry medicine of any sort from the Hospital to any patient whatsoever, or prescribe, but by the order or permission of the Physician or Surgeon in attendance ; and every apprentice transgressing any part of this Pule shall be discharged from the Hospital and never more permitted to attend it.

XIII.

The name of each apprentice, with the date of his indenture, shall be entered in a book to be kept for the purpose.

XIV.

Apprentices of the gentlemen who are Surgeons to the Hospital shall have a preference to become Surgeons to it here- after, provided they can produce at the time of election certificates of regularity, attention, and good conduct during their apprenticeshij).

XV.

A registry book shall be kept, in which the observations of the Surgeons at the monthly meetings, relative to apprentices, shall be entered ; and if at the time of application on the part of any ajiprentice for a certificate no complaint shall apj)ear on this book against him, he shall be deemed to have conducted himself regularly, attentively and diligently, and entitled to his certificate accordingly. But if any complaint shall be registered against such apprentice, then each Physician and Surgeon shall judge of the nature of such complaint, and may withhold his signature from the certificate applied for if he thinks proper, and not otherwise.

XVI.

Pupils. — The Hospital shall be open for the instruction of inipils on- the payment of certain fees, to be regulated by the

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Medical Board ou tlie last Friday in September in each year. The names of such pupils as attend at the Hospital to be registered in like manner as the apprentices.

XVII.

No pupil can be allowed to dress patients, perform operations, or interfere directly with the practice of the Hospital unless he shall be a dressing pupil, for which an additional fee shall be charged.

XVIII.

A registry shall be kept of the conduct of the pupils, and no certificate shall be granted unless merited.

XIX.

No certificate shall be granted to either apprentice or pupil unless at one of the monthly meetings of the Board.

XX.

Patients. — The patients admitted during each month to be under the care of the Surgeon or Physician in attendance, e.xcept in a case of recommendation by one of the Medical Board. The patient so recommended to be under the care of the Surgeon or Physician recommending.

XXI.

There shall always be beds kept apart for immediate accidents.

XXII.

Operations to be always performed by the Surgeon under whose care patients requiring them shall be admitted.

XXIII.

No operation to be performed without a regularly convened consultation (the majority to decide on the expediency of the operation) except in cases of most urgent necessity, and even then there shall be every possible notice given to the other Surgeons. The summonses for consultation to be issued by the Apothecary.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS.

XXIV.

T.lie daj's for consultation (as far as shall be practicable) to bo Mondays and Fridays, and the days for operation Tuesdays and Saturdays. Tbe hour to be that immediately preceding the opening of the doors of the Hospital.

XXY.

Library. — There shall always be a library attached to the Hospital for the benefit of the Physicians, Surgeons, apprentices and pupils.

XXVI.

The librarian to be always one of the Medical Board, to bo chosen annually on the last Friday in March.

XXVII.

The Physicians and Surgeons for the time being to be always free of tbe library ; pupils and apprentices to be allowed the use of the books on payment of a certain fee, to be annually determined on the last Friday in September.

XXVIII.

Pupils and apprentices having subscribed for three successive years, to be free for the remainder of the time of their attend- ance at the Hospital.

XXIX.

No certificate of attendance on the Hospital to be granted to any pupil or apprentice unless the librarian shall report that he is in nowise indebted to the library.

XXX.

The remainder of the management of the library relating to the disposal of fines, the making regulations for the pupils, to be entirely within the control of the librarian for the time being, with tbe restriction only that he shall not contract any debt in the name of the library, and if he does it shall be at his own risk.

JJIOGliAPllIES

Olf THE

PHYSICIANS OF THE HOSPITAL,

EROM ITS EOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT.

4

THOMAS BROOKE, M.D.,

Physician to the Hospital, 1754,

HOMAS BROOKE was the first physician to the Meath Hospital, being appointed to it one year after it was founded. He was the son of Henry Brooke, Esq., a gentleman of means, residing in Dublin. His son Thomas was born about the year 1711 in Dublin, and was educated in Athy under Mr. Gannett, A.M. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a Fellow Commoner on Sep- tember 2, 1727, aged sixteen, under Mr. Dobbs as his college tutor. He took his B.A. Vern 1731, and in 1754 ho was appointed physician to the Meath Hospital, a post which ho seems only to have held for one year. He lived in Eustace Streei, Dublin, and afterwards in Jervis Street. He died in the year 1765.

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FEANCIS HUTCHINSON, M.D.

1’hysician, 1754.

Francis Hutchinson was the son of the Rev. Samuel Hutchinson, of the county Down, where he was born about the year 1726. He was educated by Dr. Young, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, at the age of fourteen on July 9, 1740, his college tutor being Mr. Sullivan. He took his B.A, T ern 1745, M.A. JEst 1748, and M.D. Vern 1762. He was the Second physician appointed to the Meath Hospital, and only remained as one of the staff for a little over a year. He was likewise one of the physicians to the Lock Hospital. In 1757 he lived at 32 Stafford Street, which was a favourite residence for doctors about this period. He married Mary Card, and by her he had one son (Francis Hutchinson) and three daughters. He died in August, 1784, and left his property, by will, to be divided chiefly among his children, and the remainder to Clotworthy Rowley, Councillor- at-Law, city of Dublin, Hamilton M'Clure, Attorne}’- at-Law, and his mother-in-law, Mary Card. He also mentions his friends, James Archdall, of Maryvale, county Down; Brabazon Noble, merchant, city of Dublin ; Sir Nathaniel Barry, Bart. . and Doctor Henry Quinn. His will was sworn to 23rd Septem- ber, 1 7 84. When Dr. Hutchinson retired from the Meath Hospital he devoted himself to science and chemistry, and held a I’rofes- sorship of Chemistry in Trinity College, Dublin, from 1760 to 1767. In Gilborne’s Medical Review, 1775, the following lines appear : —

Francis Hutchinson.

“ Th’ acconiplislicd, well instructed Hvitcheson,

Of learned father is the learned son.

Can well harangue in professorial chair Th’ elements, earth, water, lire and air. lie first in chemistry to light has brought Full many secrets th’ ancients vainlj- sought ;

To system regular he ean reduce Of arts and sciences the most abstruse."

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WILLIAM PATTEN (on Patton).

PuYsiCEVN, 1756 TO 1770.

William Patten was the third physician appointed to the Meath Ilospital, and remained on the staff for a period of fourteen years. He lived in Chancery Lane, a very fashionable neighbourhood at that period, and died in the year 1770. His wife’s name was Lydia, and he left behind him a daughter and only child, Mary Patten.

JOHN DONALDSON.

Physician, 1760 to 1762.

On consulting the almanacks of these years (1760 to 1762) we find John Donaldson’s name appearing on the staff as physician ; but as the earlier records of the Hospital are lost, it is im- . possible to ascertain anything further concerning him. His name does not appear in the list of the College of Physicians of that date.

JOHN CHAELES ELEUEY, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital prom 1767 to 1786.

Dr. Fleury was an eminent practitioner in the city of Dublin in the last century, particularly as an accoucheur. In Dr. John Gilborne’s Medical Review a poem, being a panegyric on the Faculty of Dublin Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries marching in procession to the Temple of Fame, 1775, we meet the following verse with reference to Fleury : —

“ Fleury can sjTuptoms of diseases tell,

Symptoms of symptoms can distinguish well ;

Assist the labours of the groaning wife.

And saves the infant’s and the mother’s life.”

It appears in searching various records that the family of Fleury is of French extraction. After the Edict of Nantes the Fleurys, being Huguenots, fled to Holland. The first Fleury cauio over as a pi'ivate chaplain to William II., and his wife maid of honour to Queen Mary. He was at the battle of the Boyne, and must have appeared there as part of the “ Church Militant,” for

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liis descendants long preserved the shot-marked gown ho wore on the occasion. He afterwards settled Avith other French refugees at Portarlington, where his son, Anthony Fleury, became minister to the French Congregation of that place. One of Anthony’s sons became Archdeacon of Waterford and father of the Rev. Charles Marlay Fleury, who was chaplain to the old Molyneux Asylum in Peter Street, afterwards removed to Christ Church, Leeson Park, which was built for him, and who died February 3, 1863, leaving a number of sons* and daughters still alive. Another son of Anthony’s was John Charles, the subject of this notice, who, as we have stated, attained a high degree of eminence in his profession. On the 23rd November, 1784, he was elected a Licentiate of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians, '' without examination or expense,” a remarkable fact, considering how difficult it would be to get in the present day a qualification on the same terms. He was remarkably near- sighted. He is buried in the picturesque little graveyard at Dundrum, near Dublin. On his tombstone we read: “Hero lieth the body of John Charles Fleury, an eminent and ingenious physician, whose cheerfulness and social wit rendered him the delight of his friends.” He died suddenly on September 29, 1797, aged 64, universally regretted. He had some years pre- viously retired from practice. Dr. Ringland in his “ Annals of Midwifery in Ireland,” being an address delivered November 20, 1869, says — “When Mosse was about to pass away another able obstetrician, whose name well merits enrolment amongst those who have adorned the character of the midwifery practitioners of our city, was but then buckling on his armour for the ‘ battle of life.’” Dr. John Charles Fleury was a most accomplished classical scholar. He commenced practice in both medicine and midwifery in 1760, immediately after he had obtained his medical degree in Edinburgh, and being then in his twentv. seventh year. Three years subsequently he wms elected

* One of his sons, the Rev. Charles W. Fleury, is at present Curate to Christ Church, Leeson Park, 1887. Another son, Louis Arthur, is a medical man in Monte Video, S.A.

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physician to the Meath Hospital, and held that appointment up to 1786. Dr. Fleury submitted many valuable papers to the Medico-Philosophical Society of Dublin, of which he was a very active member. In one of these papers communicated on December 7, 1775, he pointed out what we now receive as the most reliable sign of ruptured uterus, and that ten years antecedent to the publication of Dr. Andrew Douglas’s cele- brated hrochure on that subject “ Complete retrocession of the head after it has been for some time presenting.” In December, 1777, he read before the same Society an interesting paper detailing a case of retroversion of the uterus, occurring in the third month of pregnancy. About 1761 or 1762 Dr. Pleury commenced a systematic course of lectures on “ Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children,” which he continued up to 1769. These lectures were delivered in the Anatomical Theatre of Trinity College, Dublin, and to Dr. Fleury belongs the merit of having been the first systematic lecturer in Ireland upon midwifery and the diseases of women and children. Another point of no little interest in connection with Dr. Fleury’s obstetric career is that, with a view to render his lectures more practical, he was in the habit of attending with his class poor women in labour at their own homes, and thus initiated the system of “ Extern Midwifery Cases,” so largely availed of in this city, in connection with the different Lying-in Hospitals, and of such inestimable value in aiding the poorer classes who are unable to avail them- selves of intern hospital accommodation.

By the foregoing it would appear that Dr. Fleury devoted more attention to midwifery than medicine. However, this is not the case, for he was a most painstaking and careful physician, and paid great attention to the patients committed to his care in the Meath Hospital, and did much to advance the interests and reputation of the charity.

In looking to the old minute book cf the Medical Board of the Meath Hospital at the following date, 7th Feb., 1786, we fiad this record —

‘‘ At a meeting of the Medical Board of the County Dublin

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Infirmary, to elect a physician in the room of Dr. Charles Fleury, resigned,

Present — Dr. Every ; Surgeons — Vance, Eoney, Winter, Scott, Eead,

Dr. Edmund Cullen was unanimously elected. At the same time the thanks of the meeting were voted to Dr. Pleury for his .singular attention to the charity.

(Signed)

Tliomas Every,

W. Vance,

Art. Winter,

Israel Read,

Pat. Roney,

James Scott.

In 1770 Dr. Eleury lived at 51 Stephen Street.

DANIEL COOKE, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital prom 1770 to 1781.

Daniel Cooke was the sixth physician appointed to the Meath Hospital. He remained on the staff for eleven years. When he resigned he lived at 26 Meath Street, quite close to the Hospital. He was a very distinguished physician in his day. He made a large income, and was considered a good authority on fevers.

Gilborne describes him thus: —

“ Unit eminent pliysician, Daniel Cooke,

Has freely drank at the Castalian brook ;

The febrile crisis prudently foresees.

Receives for his attendance ample fees.”

On consulting the minute book of the Medical Board the fol- lowing entry occurs : —

22nd June, 1781.

“ At a meeting of the Medical Board of the County Dublin Hospital,

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Present — Dr. Charles Fleury ; Surgeons — James Mills, Arthur Winter, William Vance, Irsael Read,

Dr. Francis Hopkins was elected physician to the County Dublin Hospital in the room of Dr. Daniel Cooke, resigned.

Dr. Cooke died some time in the month of June, 1782, and he left his property to his daughter, Sarah Cooke, and in case of her death, to his wife, Mary Cooke, otherwise, Reed ; his will was sworn 24th July, 1782.

FRANCIS HOPKINS, M.D.

Physician, 1781 to 1785.

Francis Hopkins was the son of Francis Hopkins, a gentle- man of means in the county Meath. His son Francis was born in same county in the year 1752, was educated at Dr. French’s school, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, at the age of seven- teen, on November 1, 1769, his college tutor being Mr. Connor. He graduated B.A. Fern 1773. Shortly after being qualified he lived at 8 Mary’s Abbey, which was his address in 1780. He afterwards removed to 53 Stephen Street. On the 22nd June, 1781, he was elected physician to the Meath Hospital, vice Dr. Daniel Cooke resigned. On the 7th April, 1785, he wrote the following letter to the Medical Board : —

“53 Stephen Street,

“April 7th, 1785.

“ Gentlemen, — The Medical Board of Mercer’s Hospital hav- ing been pleased to appoint me one of the physicians to said Hospital, and its contiguity to my place of residence rendering my attendance there less difficult than at one so remote as the County of Dublin Infirmary, I beg leave to resign my place of physician to the latter in order that another may be appointed with as little delay as possible.

“ I must, however, assure the gentlemen that, although my exertions for the interest of the Hospital must, as physician, now

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terminate, I shall be at all times ready to co-operate with them as a governor in whatever may tend to encourage and promote so useful a charity.

“ I am, gentlemen, with much gratitude for the honour you conferred on me,

“ Your much obliged and very humble servant,

“Francis Hopkins.

“ To the gentlemen composing the Medical Board of the County Dublin Infirmary.”

This letter was sent to the Medical Board, who held a meeting, vide minutes.

“ Meath Hospital, 20th April, 1785.

At a meeting of the Medical Board,

Present — Surgeons William Yance, Arthur Y’^inter,

Israel Eead, James Scott, Pat. Eoney, George O’Brien.

This day. Doctor Thomas Evory was unanimously elected physician to the Meath Hospital in the room of Dr. Francis Hopkins, resigned.

(Signed)

Pat. Eonej’’,

James Scott,

George O’Brien,

AVm. Vance,

Israel Eead,

Arthur Y’’inter.

Eesolved unanimously — “ That the thanks of the governors be returned to Dr. Francis Hopkins, late physician to the Hospital, for his care of the poor during his attendance there.” (To be inserted three times in the Hibernian Journali)

Dr. Hopkins did not hold his position as physician to Mercer’s Hospital very long, for he soon devoted his time entirely to midwifery, and became Assistant Master to the Eotunda

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Lying--in Hospital, under Dr. Joseph Clarke, who was tlie sixth master from 1787 to 1793. After leaving the Eotunda he practised exclusively as a midwifery practitioner, and in the year 1808 was appointed the ninth master of the Eotunda Hospital — a position he held till the termination of his seven years’ appointment in 1815.

Dr. Brennan, in his Milesian Magazine, alludes to Doctor Hopkins in rather uncomplimentary terms —

“ ’Twas Hopkins who might have most justly replaced Th’ dethroned wooden man who old Essex Street graced,

And if for the pedestal Henthom sued

From the igneous claims that his head could obtrude ;

And that Paddy Rooney and Boyle and such names Urged the voice of the people as gods for their claims,

Placing Ferguson, Clegthom, Cheyne, and such Scots,

Whose effrontery passes for genius with sots ;

The judge of puff’d checks would most justly decree O Hopkins, that none could shew title with theo.”

We presume Dr. Hopkins annoyed Dr. Breanan by not trying his turpentine treatment.

After Dr. Hopkins left the Eotunda he went to reside in Baggot-street, and he died there in the month of September, 1819. He made a will, which was sworn to 18th October, 1819. He left two sons, Francis Hopkins and Eev. James Hopkins.

THOMAS EVOEY, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital from 1785 to 1793.

Doctor Thomas Evory was the son of a Londonderry apothecary, and was born on the 18th October, 1758, in the city of Derry, and died at his house, 10 Eutland Square, on the 10th January, 1828, in the 70th year of his age. His sister, Margaret Evory, died 13th January, 1831, aged 76.

" Eminent in his profession and deservedly esteemed he will long be extensively regretted.” — (On marble slab in St. Audeon’s Church, Dublin.)

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A Mr. Ffolliott, wlio served in the American war and became entitled to a considerable sum of prize money, had, in his early days, been helped by Mr. Evory, a Londonderry apothecary. Dying before the payment of the prize money, Mr. Ffolliott be- queathed his claim to it to Dr. Thomas Evory, son of his early benefactor. Dr. Evory largely increased his wealth by his pro- fessional practice, and dying intestate and unmarried, his property passed to his sister Margaret. She bequeathed much of it to the representatives of the Ffolliott family, who were bankers in Chester. To Dr. Evory Kennedy, Dr. Evory’s godson, she be- queathed her house and everything within it, and £1.000. (Dr. Evory Kenned3% who was born November 28th, 1806, and was called after Dr. Evory, was engaged in large and fashionable midwifery practice in Dublin, and died in London 23rd April, 1886.)

Dr. Evory selected midwifery as the branch of practice he chiefly intended to devote his attention to. He therefore became assistant master of the Rotunda Hospital, under Dr. Henry Rock, who was fifth master, and who held office from 1781 to 1786, when he died, before his term of seven years had expired.

In 1794 Dr. Evory was appointed seventh master of the Rotunda Hospital

The Freeman's Journal of that date had an amusing skit inserted as follows:— “ The Mastership of the Rotunda Hospital was filled up. There were five candidates. Evory (every) one of them were elected.”

Dr. Evory’s connection with the Meath Hospital commenced by his being bound an apprentice to Mr. William Vance, one of the surgeons of the Hospital. In one of the first minute books of the Medical Board the following entiy appears — “Thomas Evory, indentured apprentice to Mr. AVilliam Vance, surgeon, for five years, from the 1st of August, 1775.” It would therefore appear that he studied for the entire period of his pupilage at the institution he afterwards became attached to as one of the physicians.

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His election is recorded in the minute book as follows : —

Meath Hospital, 20th April, 1785.

At a meeting of the Medical Board,

Present — Surgeons William Vance, Arthur Winter,

Israel Bead, James Scott, Pat. Eoney, George O’Brien.

This day, Dr. Thomas Evory was unanimously elected physician to the Meath Hospital, in the room of Dr. Prancis Hopkins, resigned.

(Signed)

Pat. Eoney,

James Scott,

George O’Brien,

William Vance,

Israel Eead,

Art. Winter.

Eesolved unanimously — “That the thanks of the governors be returned to Dr. Francis Hopkins, late physician to the Hospital, for his care of the poor during his attendance there.” (To be inserted three times in the Uihmiian Journal.)

From the foregoing will be seen the influence which apprentice- ship seems to have had from the earliest times. Evorj' had served his time to William Vance, who, in his turn, was anxious to see his old apprentice elected as a member of the staff.

From his appointment till the date of his resignation Dr. Evory was most assiduous in his attention to the sick poor admitted to the Meath Hospital. However, when he was appointed to the mastership of the Eotunda he wrote the follow- ing letter to the Medical Board : —

“ 23 Marlborough Street,

“ Dec. 4th, 1793.

“ Gentlemen, — From a concurrence of circumstances for some time past, but more especially since my appointment to the

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mastership of tbe Lying-in Hospital, I have found it morally impossible to pay that attention to your charity which both niy duty and inclination pointed out. Impressed with those ideas, I can no longer thinh of retaining the office which I now hold, and must request you will appoint another physician in my room, who will have it more completely in his power to give the neces- sary attendance. But before I withdraw myself entirely from you, permit me to return sincere thanks for the friendship and confidence which for many years I have experienced, and to assure you if hereafter I can conti’ibute in the smallest degree to the prosperity and welfare of the Meath Hospital, it will afford me the most cordial satisfaction.

“Farewell, gentlemen, and believe me, with the sincerest regard and esteem,

“ Your most obliged and faithful humble servant,

“ Thomas Evory.

“ To the Medical Gentlemen of the Meath Hosjiital.”

Record from minutes of Medical Board : —

Dec. Ith, 1793.

At a meeting of the Medical Gentlemen of the Meath Hospital to receive the resignation of Dr. Evory,

Present — Dr. Bryan, Chairman ; Surgeons —

Roney, Wilson, Richards, Dease,

Resolved — “ That the resignation of Dr. Evory be* received.”

Resolved unanimously — “That the chairman be empowered to return the thanks of the governors to Doctor Evory for his particular attention to the charity, and that it be published three times in the Ilihernian Journal.'''

Resolved — “ That we will on Saturday next proceed to an election of a physician in the room of Doctor Evory, and that summonses be issued accordingly.”

On December 7th, 1793, Dr. Thomas Bell was unanimously elected physician in the room of Dr. Thomas Evory, resigned.

Dr. Evory is noticed by Dr. Brennan in his Milesian Magazine, May, 1815, page 32.

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EDMUND CULLEN, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital 1786 to 1788.

Dr. Edmund Cullen succeeded Dr. John Charles Eleury as physician to the Meath Hospital. Vide minutes of that date —

7th February, 1786.

At a meeting of the Medical Board of the County Dublin Infirmary to elect a physician in the room of Dr. Charles Fleury, resigned.

Present — Dr. Every ; Surgeons Yance, Eoney, Winter, Scott, Eead.

Dr. Edmund Cullen was unanimously elected. At the same time the thanks of the meeting were voted to Dr. Fleury for his singular attention to the charity.

Dr. Cullen remained a member of the staff for about two years only, as the minutes show, viz. : —

At a meeting of the Medical Board, 26th June, 1788,

Present — Dr. Every ; Surgeons — Vance, Eead,

Eoney, Wilson.

Dr. Cullen having presented to the Board a letter containing the resignation of his place as physician to the Hospital, Dr. Daniel Bryan succeeded him as physician.

Dr. Cullen lived in 48 Exchequer Street in 1787, and after- wards lived in South King Street, where he died in the year 1804. Dr. Cullen was King’s Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in Trinity College, Dublin, from 1786 to the date of his death, 1804, when he was succeeded by Dr. John Crampton.

Dr. Cullen was a thoroughly well-educated physician, and well versed in modern languages, for we find in 1786 he translated Baron Bergman’s celebrated Physical and Chemical Essays, which were in two large volumes, and published by Luke White, Dublin.

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DANIEL BRYAN, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital 1788 to 1803.

Daniel Bryan was the son of the Rev. James Bryan, and he entered Trinity College, Dublin, at the age of sixteen, on July 9, 1773. He was educated by Mr. Reid, and entered under Mr. Hales as college tutor. He took his B. A. degree, Vern, 1788. He succeeded Dr. Edmund Cullen as physician to the Meath Hospital on the 4th July, 1788. The minutes record his appoint- ment as follows : —

At a meeting of the Medical Board of the Meath Hospital, on Friday, 4th July, 1788, pursuant to the resolution of the last meeting.

Present — Dr. Every ; Surgeons — Yance, Winter,

Read, O’Brien, Roney, Wilson.

Dr. Daniel Bryan was proposed as a jiroper person to fill up the present vacancy of physician to the Hospital, and unanimously elected by ballot.

(Signed)

Thomas Every,

William Vance,

Arthur Winter,

Israel Read,

George O’Brien,

Pat. Roney,

Ben. Wilson.

At the same time the thanks of the Board was presented to Dr. Cullen for his singular attention to the interest of the Hospital,

Dr. Bryan remained on the staff till the year 1803, when he wrote the following letter to the Medical Board, resicnino- his position : —

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‘‘ January 28th, 1803.

“ Gentlemen, — Not finding it convenient any longer to con- tinue physician to the Meath Hospital, I resign the office, with best wishes for the charity.

“ I remain, gentlemen,

“ Your very humble servant,

“ Daniel Bryan.

“ To the Medical Gentlemen of the Meath Hospital.”

At a meeting of the Medical Board, held Feb. 7, 1 803, it was resolved — “ That the resignation of Doctor Bryan be accepted.”

Eesolved unanimously — “ That the Chairman (Patrick Cusack Eoney) be empowered, to return the thanks of the governors to Dr. Brj’an for his particular attention to the charity, and that it be published three times in the Hibernian Journal.'^

At a meeting of the Medical Board, held Friday, the 18th Feb., 1803, Doctor Barker was unanimously elected physician to said Hospital in the room of Dr. Bryan, resigned.

Dr. Bryan was a very good physician, and had a large and fashionable practice. In 1787 he resided on Usher’s Quay, in 1800 he lived at 4 Castle Street, and in 1809, the year of his death, he resided at 11 Aungier Street.

THOMAS BELL, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital 1793 to 1806.

Thomas Bell was the son of George Bell, M.D. He was born in the Co. Mayo, educated by Dr. Burke, and entered, at the age of seventeen. Trinity College, Dublin, October 11, 1786, his college tutor being Mr. Elrington, taking his B.A. degree, Vern, 1791 He lived in various streets in Dublin, for in looking over old directories of the last century we find him living in Jervis Street, then in 20 Bishop Street, and finally at 34 York Street, in which house he lived during the latter part of his life, and died there. He married early in life, and had two sons, the eldest Thomas, the second Alexander.

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In liis will, which was proved in 1815, he says — “I bequeath all my estate and interest therein to my eldest son, Thomas Bell, and to my wife, Lydia Bell, during her natural life, my interest in a house and lands at Cullenswood, and as much of the house- hold furniture as she may deem necessary to keep, and whatever plate, household linen, and books from my library as she may deem useful.”

From all that can bo gathered from the early records of the Hospital, it is most probable that Dr. Thomas Bell served his time to some member of the staff or he would never have been elected as physician to the Institution. "We find in the Medical Board minutes the following entry : —

Dec. 7th, 1793.

At a meeting of the Medical Board of the County Dublin In- firmary to elect a physician in the room of Doctor Thomas Evoiy, resigned.

Present — Doctor Bryan, in the chair ; Surgeons —

Eoney, "Wilson, Eichards, Dense.

Doctor Thomas Bell was unanimously elected.

(Signed)

Daniel Brj^an,

Pat. Eonej^

Benjamin Wilson,

Sol. Eichards,

William Dense,

Dr Bell held the post of physician to the Hosjutal for a period something over thirteen years, when ho resigned and was succeeded by Dr. Thomas Egan. The entry in the minute book is as follows : —

Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmarj',

March 24th, 1806.

At a mcetbig of the Medical Board.

Present— Mr. Eoney, Mr. Dense, Mr. Crampton.

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The following letter being read : —

“Sir, — I request that you will communicate to the Board of ^Medical Governors of the Meath Hospital this my resignation of the office of physician to that charity.

“ I am, sir, your obedient and humble servant,

“ TnoMAs Bell.

“To Mr. Luko Wall, Secretary to the “Governors of the Meath Hospital.”

(Eeceived).

FEANCIS B.IEKEE, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital from 1803 to 1809.

Francis Barker was born in Waterford, in the year 1773, and descended from a respectable old Waterford family. He became an eminent physician and chemist, and for forty years filled the Chair of Chemistry in the University of Dublin. In the last century, and the early part of the present one, the cultivation of chemical science, and the practice of medicine were frequently associated in the same person. Steevens, Hutchinson, Thornton, M'Bride and Percival, were engaged in medical practice, but all of them, save M'Bride, taught chemistry, notwithstanding the last named made it the subject of original investigation.

Francis Barker was a highly educated physician. He grad- uated B. A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1793, and afterwards studied Medicine in Edinburgh, in 1795, when he became very intimate with Sir Walter Scott. On taking a medical degree at Edin- burgh, he composed a thesis “ De Invento Galvum,” suggesting the identity of the nervous fluid and dynamical electricity. He then returned to his native city, Waterford, where he remained for five years, and opened the first fever hospital in Ireland ; feeling that his abilities might be more appreciated in a larger sphere of work, he left Waterford and settled in Dublin. In 18U8, he was elected Professor of Chemistry, Trinity College,

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Dublin, and took the M.A. and M.D. degrees in 1810. He started the first medical journal in Ireland in conjunction with Dr. Todd. In 1804 he was elected senior physician to the Cork Street Hosj)ital, and from 1820 to 1852 was Secretary to the Irish Board of Health. He became a Licentiate 1805, and a Bellow in 1813, of the College of Physicians in Heland. In 1828 he published a translation of, and observations on, the Dublin Phannacopoeia, and he was the author of several Reports of the Cork-street Hospital, and one in 1831, on the “ Prevention of Spasmodic Cholera.” In con- junction with John Cheyne ho produced in 1821, a work on Typhus Fever Epidemics.

His election as physician to the Meath Hospital dates from 1st Feb., 1803. The following is the original entr}’^ copied from the Medical Board minute book of that date : —

Record of Election.

At a meeting of the Medical Governors of the ^leath nosjutal, on Friday, the 18th day of February, 1803, by adjournment from Monday last.

Present — Doctor Bell, in the Chair ; Surgeons —

Roney, senr., Dease, Crampton, Roney, junr.

Mr. Crampton having proposed Doctor Barker, he was unan- imously elected physician to said Hospital, in the room of Doclor Bryan, resigned.

Record of Resignation.

Friday, May 19th, 1809.

At a Meeting of the Medical Board of the Meath Hotpital, and County Dublin Infirmary.

Present — Doctor Egan in the Chair ; Surgeons —

Roney, senr., Dease, Roney, junr., Hewson.

The following letter being read : —

May 15th, 1809.

“Gentlemen, — Finding my attendance on the Meath Hos- pital incompatible with other avocations, I must beg that you accept my resignation.

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“Believe me to remain a sincere well-wlslier to the Insti- tution, and to entertain sentiments of esteem and respect for the Medical Governors,

“ Yours, &c.,

“ Francis Barker,

“ To the Medical Governors of the Meath Hospital.”

Eesolved — “ That the resignation of Doctor Barker be re- ceived, and that the thanks of the Medical Governors be returned to liim for his particular atten’ion to the charity.”

Resolved — “ That on Monday next the Medical Governors will proceed to the election of a physician in his room,” when George Frank Todderick was unanimously elected Physician.

In 1808 he lived at 86 Stephen’s Green, South, but afterwards moved to 26 Lower Baggot Street; he also had a place at Sandy- cove, called Rosetta. About the year 1805, he married Emma, daughter of the Rev. Arthur Conoll}', Vicar of Donard, in Co. Wicklow. By her he had an only child, AVilliam, who was born in Dublin on the 6th Jan., 1810, and who afterwards became a Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Professor of Chemistry, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland ; he never practised medicine, but devoted himself to science. He died from disease of the liver, at his house 21 Hatch Street, in Sept., 1873. In 1838 ho married Miss Houghton, by whom he had several children, sons and daughters. One son entered the Army Medical Service, and another, Arthur Edward James, a Fellow of the College of Surgeons, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College, London, and Assistant Surgeon University College Hospital, is now residing at 67 Harley Street, London. Frauds Barker died Oct. 8th, 1859, aged 85 years, respected and beloved by all who knew him.

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THOMAS EGAN, M.D.

EnYSICIAN TO THE HoSPITAL 1806 TO 1818.

After the rebellion of 1641 the Egan family, whose ancestors were possessed of large estates, were, with many others, deprived of their territorial possessions, and consequently driven from their homes to seek their fortunes in foreign countries such as Spain, France, and America.

The name of MacEgan is of great antiquity. As far back as ’ 1257 they occupied a castle known as Bun Doighre, now Bunirg, in the county of Galway, and for a long series of years were celebrated as Brehons or judges in Connaught, and many of them were distinguished as eminent literary men.

Two brothers, John and James Egan, settled as tenants on the lands of Dunblaney, the property of the Stantons, and married into a family the name of Burk. Thomas, the eldest son (brother to Dean Egan, of Duumore, and nephew to the Archbishop of Tuam, who died in 1798), was born in 1752, and John, the youngest, took up his residence at Tuam, where lie subsequently was appointed J.P. for the county, and married a sister of Sir John Shea, of Dunmore, Bart.

Thomas, who at an early age displayed unusual ability, was educated at home by a tutor, and, as a boy, was passionately fond of sporting, both in the field and on the river. In order to enlarge the scope of professional research, his parents sent him abroad with a view to the study of medicine in the continental hospitals. On his return he obtained his diploma from the Eoyal College of Physicians in Ireland, and settled in the town of Galway, where he commenced the practice of his profession. Here he was introduced to Miss Sarah Gibbon, whom he after- wards married, but the choice not meeting with the approval of his friends, he determined to abandon the provincial town and come up to Dublin, where in 1804 he took up his residence in Sackville Street, at that time the resort of the nobilitj'. His fame soon spread, his practice rapidly increased, and after a com-

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paratively short period he attained the highest position as a con- sulting physician, and was considered the best authority on fever, which at that time was very prevalent in the metropolis.

In 1806 he was appointed physician to the Meath Hospital, and had as his colleague Dr. Cheyne, Avith whom ho was closely associated, and whose unbroken friendship he enjoyed during the whole course of his professional career.

He was subsequently elected physician to the Cork Street Fever Hospital, and Simpson’s Hospital, all of which appoint- 'ments he held to the date of his death in 1818. He was not a voluminous writer, as his busy life gave him but little leisure for the use of his pen. He was, however, the author of a treatise on urinary diseases, based upon cases selected from the gouty wards of Simpson’s Hospital, and which displayed a thorough knowledge of chemical analysis. He was likewise a frequent contributor to the medical periodicals of the day.

Dr. Egan was elected to the Meath Hospital on March 27th, 1806. The following is a record of his election, from minutes of the Medical Board : —

March 27th, 1806.

At a meeting of the Medical Governors of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary,

Present — Doctor Barker; Surgeons — Eoney, Dease, Crampton, Eoney, junr..

Doctor Egan being proposed, was unanimously elected in the room of Dr. Bell, resigned.

Dr. Ejjan must have died at 10 Sackville Street about the 9th or 10th of Dec., 1818, for at a meeting of the Medical Board, held 11th Dec., 1818, the following record ai^pears : —

Eesolved — “ That the death of Dr. Egan, one of the physicians of the House, has been this day notified to us.”

On the 14th Dec., 1818, Dr. Whitley Stokes succeeded Dr. Egan as physician to the Hospital.

Dr. Egan’s will was sworn to on the 24th Dec., 1818, and he loft behind him his wife, Sarah Egan, two daughters —

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Eleanor and Margaret — and two sons — TLoinas and John. His eldest son, Thomas Henry Egan, heeame a Licentiate of the Loyal College of Surgeons, Ireland, and for twenty-one years was surgeon to the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin. He died on the 27th of March, 1843, and was succeeded by his son in the Lock Hospital — Dr. John Cruice Egan, who afterwards resigned his post and gave up the profession and became a clergyman. The latter’s qualifications are — M A., M.D., Glasgow, 1842; F.R.C.S.I., 1845 ; L., 1840, and he now resides (1887) at Christ Church Vicarage, South Hackney, London, E., of which he is the Vicar, and to whom the author is indebted for this memoir of his grandfather.

GEOLGE FEANK TODDEEICK, M.D.

Physician from 1809 to 1811.

Dr. Todderick was a very eminent physician in Dublin at the beginning of this century. He was born in the Co. Dublin in the year 1782. His father, Thomas Todderick, being a gentle- man of means, never followed any profession ; was a Presbyterian, and formerly came from Scotland. His son entered T.C.D. on November 4, 1799, as a Fellow Commoner, at the age of seven- teen, having been previously educated and prepared for entrance by the Eev. Mr. AVhiteside. Todderick’s college tutor was Dr. Miller. He took his B.A. degree in 1803, and M.A. and M.B. Vern., 1807. He succeeded Dr. Barker as physician to the Meath Hospital. His appointment is recorded in the minutes as follows : —

May 21st, 1809.

At a Meeting of the Medical Board of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary,

Doctor Egan in the Chair.

Present — Surgeons — Ehjhards, Eoney, senr., Eoney, junr., Crampton, Dease, Hewson,

Doctor Todderick being proposed, was unanimously elected physician to said Hospital in the room of Doctor Barker, resigned.

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Dr. ToJdeiick was au extremely j)i*actical and painstaking physician, and attended the patients in the Meath Hospital witli great assiduity. His health, however, was not the best, and on looking to the minutes of the Medical Board we find the record of his resignation —

Nov. 9th, 1811.

At a meeting of the Medical Governors of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary,

Doctor Egan in the Chair.

Present — Surgeons — P. Honey, S. Eichards, E.

Dease, P. Crampton, C. Eoney, J. Hewson,

The following letter being read : —

“Swansea, Glammorganshire,

“Nov. 1st, 1811.

“ Gentlemen, — From the state of my health, feeling myself unable to fulfil the duties of the Meath Hospital in the manner I could wish, I beg leave to present my resignation to the Medical Governors as physician to the above Institution, and request them to accept of my regret at leaving them, as also of my best wishes for their success and happiness.

“ Geo. Prank Todderick.

“ To the Medical Governors of the Meath Hospital,”

Eesolved — “ That Doctor Todderick’s resignation be accepted, and that our thanks are due and are hereby given to him for his gentlemanlike conduct whilst physician to this Institution.”

Dr. Todderick was succeeded by Dr. John Cheyne, who was appointed November Pith, 1811. Dr. Todderick lived, in 1810, at 39, Grafton Street, and he removed from that, in 1811, to 18, South Frederick Street, a house that is now occupied by Morrow’s library. He married a Miss Pritchard, but never had any family. His own mother, after the death of his father, Thomas Todderick, married a Mr. Thorpe Frank, who was a very wealthy man, connected with Dublin in early life, but afterwards went to reside in Paris, where he died.

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Dr. Todderick very soon got iuto large practice, and his extreme kindness and attention to the late Professor William ITenry Porter during a severe attack of typhus fever is still rememhered with feelings of gratitude by the Porter family.

About the year 1822 or 1823 Dr. Todderick and his wife left Dublin altogether to go and reside in France with his step- father, Mr. Thorpe Frank. After he went to Paris ho became a Poman Catholic, and used, to dress in the garb of some reli- gious order. His wife and he died at Exeter, in England, leaving his great wealth to the Poman Catholic Church.

Dr. Todderick, even in his day, had a great craze for ventila- tion. Nearly all diseases he attributed to the want of proper ventilation.

Dr. Todderick appears to have had a brother who annoyed Dr. Brennan, the turpentine doctor, for in the Milesian Magazine for April, 1812, page 158, we find the following: —

Died, in College Green, Thomas Todderick, Esq., dealer in lottery tickets and exchange. In the coiu’se of a very few years this man had acquired preminence as glutton, epicure, and cook that is seldom reserved for even superannuated aldermen. He was allowed on all hands to bo the first dresser of bullock’s kidney in all Dublin ; at a salad he had no equal ; and in stewing cheese ‘ we never shall look ujjon his like again.’ . . . We

understand he has left a brother who is at present in Dublin, a man of taste, a Member of the Poyal King and Queen’s College of Physicians, an Examiner of Enemas to the Poyal Apothecaries’ shops of this^City.”

JOHN CHEYNE, M.D.

PaoFESsoR OF Medicine, P.C.S.I., 1813-19.

Physician to the Hospital from 1811 to 1817.

John Cheyne was born on the 2nd Februaiy, 1777, at Leitli, near Edinburgh University, and graduated M.D. in 1795, and in the same year passed the Qualifying Examination for Surgeon’s Mate at the Surgeons’ Hall. He entered the army, and was

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sent to Ireland, where he saw some active service, and was present at the battle of Vinegar Hill, in the county of Wexford. In 1799 he returned to Scotland, and took charge of Leith Ordnance Hospital, and began to assist his father. He sj)ent nine years in this way, fully using his opportunities for studying pathology. He formed an acquaintance with Mr. (afterwards Sir Charles) Bell, from whom he received valuable instructions in the art of performing dissections of the human subject.

Owing to some accounts which he received as to the state of the medical profession in Dublin, Cheyne resolved to re-visit that city, and arrived there in March, 1809. He states that he found the medical profession respected chiefly, no doubt, owing to the eminent physicians who had flourished in Dublin during the previous haK-century. Dr. Smith, remarkable for his munificence ; Sir Nathaniel Barry, whom Mr. Grattan charac- terised as the most accomplished gentleman he had ever known ; Dr. Plunkett, the witty and learned brother of the Lord Chan- cellor ; and many others could be named amongst the accom- plished medical men of those days. Cheyne states that he found the Dublin physicians, mostly belonging to Cullen’s school, relying chiefly upon symptomology, and paying but little attention to pathology. Much of the purely medical practice was passing into the hands of the surgeons, Cheyne settled in Dublin towards the end of 1809. On the 5th October, 1811, he was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians, and was elected a Pellow on the 18th October, 1824. From the 9th November, 1810, until the 4th May, 1811, Cheyne received in fees the sum of three guineas. In the latter year he was ap- pointed physician to the Meath Hospital in succession to G. F. Todderick.

On the 15th June, 1813, he was elected Professor of Medicine to the College of Surgeons. His lectures, which were chiefly on military surgery and medicine, were largely attended by army and naval surgeons, and surgeon’s mates, as well as by the registered pupils of the College.

Cheyne, it is believed, was the fii-st physician of good standing

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in Dublin who regularly met apothecaries in medical consulta- tions. In 1812 his fees rose to £472. On the 27th October, 1815, he was admitted physician to the House of Industry Hospitals, whereupon he resigned his post in the Meath Hos- pital, but he did not resign his professorship in the College until 1819. In 1816 he realised £1,710 from his practice. In conjunction with Percival he established a School of Clinical Medicine and a Museum of Morbid Anatomy, in connection with the House of Industry Hospitals. In 1817-18 a fever epidemic raged in Dublin, and the House of Industry became converted into a vast hospital for typhus fever cases; about 700 were treated by Cheyne and his colleagues. In 1 820 he was appointed Physician-Greneral. The office was always considered by medical men as one of great dignity, and its emoluments were considei’- able. In the “ Whimsical Miscellany ” (of which three volumes are preserved in Trinity College Library), the following lines, probably written by Dean Swift, occur : —

“ As for the motives most men doubt,

Why those two doctors did fall out ;

Some say it was ambition.

And that the one did undermine The others credit with design,

To be the State’s Physitian.”

From 1820 to 1830 Cheyne’s income averaged £5,000. Had he paid visits to patients in the countiy — which he declined to do — his income would have probably reached £6,000. In 1825 his health began to fail, and in 1831 he retired to Sherrington, Buckinghamshire, whore he died on the 31st January, 1836.

Cheyne used his pen freely. Up to the year 1809 he pub- lished in Edinburgh three works relating to diseases of children. In those books he laid great stress upon the importance of making pathological observations.

In Dublin this important means of advancing medical know- ledge has been much neglected, little having been published on Morbid Anatomy from Clossy’s time. In 1809 Cheyne’s work on the “ Pathology on the Membrane of the Trachea and

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Bronchia,” appeared in London in the form of a volume of 204 pages and 8 plates. In 1812 he published in London a work entitled “ Cases of Apople.xy and Lithargy, with Observations of Comatose Diseases,” 8vo, 224 pages and 5 plates. In 1815 there was published in Dublin a second edition of his “ Essay on Dropsy of the Brain,” 8vo, 75 pages. In his Eeport on the Hardwicke Fever Hospital for 1818, he gives an interesting account of the epidemic of typhus fever which raged in Dublin in 1817-18. An account of this epidemic also appears in the Dublin Hospital Deports, Vol. II., as does one of an epidemic of dysentery in Vol. III. In 1819 an enlarged edition (168 pp.) of his work on “Hydrocephalus Acutus” appeared in Dublin.

In 1821, Cheyne and Francis Barker published their “ Account of the Eise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately Epidemical in Ireland.” The work, which was brought out in Dublin in two octavo volumes of 500 and 387 pages each, con- tain numerous communications with physicians, and various official documents relating to this epidemic of (typhus) fever, whicli will always afford valuable information to the systematic writers on fever. In 1831 he presented to the Lord Lieutenant a Eeport on the Prevention of Spasmodic Cholera. His last work was the following, published after his death. “ Essays on Partial Derangement of the Mind in supposed connection with Eeligion.”

Cheyne married Sarah, daughter of the Eev. George Ma- cartney, Yicar of Antrim. Like his father, he had sixteen children — nine sons and seven daughters, One of the latter, Selina, married the Eight Eev. Charles -Graves, present Lord Bishop of Limerick.

PATEICK IIAEKAN, M.D.

Physician from 1817 to 1821.

Patrick Harkan was the second son of Neil Harkan, Esq., of Eaheen, Elphin, in Co. Eoscommon, a landed proprietor, and was born in May, 1779, at Elphin. He was sent at a very

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eaily age to Eome, and studied in the College there for several years intending to be a priest, but he abandoned the idea, and determined to enter the medical profession. Ho left Rome, and after a tour in Spain, Germany, and France, ho went to Edin- burgh and entered the University there, and studied for several years under the Munroes and many other distinguished

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professors of that day. In 1801 he took his degree of M.D., in the University of Edinburgh. Shortly afterwards he came to Ireland and settled in Elphin, where he practised for some short time. His brother, an eminent surgeon in Dublin, Peter Harkan, a colleague of Sir Philip Crampton, and joined with him in Cramjiton’s School of Medicine, induced him to come and settle in Dublin, which he did. He took out a liicentiate’s degree from the College of Physicians in Dublin in 1812, but having no degree from Trinity College, Dublin, was not eligible to become a Fellow — the rule regarding this has been changed since.

On coming to live in Dublin, he first resided in L^wer Sack- ville Street, but in 1814 took a lease of the house and j^remises then known as 40, Upper Sackville Street, now 44, and lived there from that year up to his death in July, 1861, a period of about 48 years. He practised in the same house until he retired from practice in 1858.

When Harkan took the house in Sackville Street, there were no shops or places of business in it, nor for many jmars after- wards on either side of Upper Sackville Street. When he took the house he paid a fine for it of £1,600, subject to £60 a year rent, exclusive of taxes, and in 1871 it was sold for £800, showing how house property in leading streets in Dublin has depreciated.

He was elected a physician to the Fever Hospital, Cork Street, and was connected with that Institution for upwards of forty years, and during periods when typhus fever was very prevalent among the poor artisans of Dublin.

In the year 1817, he was ajipointed physician to the Meath Hospital.

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The followiug record, from the minutes of the Medical Board is here inserted : —

Oct. 14th, 1817.

At a Meeting of the Medical Board of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary,

Dr. Egan in the chair,

Present— Messrs. Dense, C. Eoney, Ilewson, T. Eoney,

Mr. C. Eoney having proposed Doctor Patrick Harkan, Licentiate of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians, as physician in the room of Dr. Cheyne,

Eesolved unanimously — “ That Dr. Patrick Harkan be elected a physician to this Institution.”

Harkan only held the position for a little over three years, when he resigned, as the following record from the minutes sjiows —

June 21st, 1 321.

At a Meeting of the Medical Board of the Meath Hospital, Mr. Cranipton in the chair.

Present — Dr. Stokes, Mr. C. Eoney, Mr. Hewson,

Mr. T. Eoney, Mr. Macnamara, Mr. Porter.

Eesolved — “That the Senior Member of the Medical Board, present at any of its meetings, be always considered as Chair- man.”

The following letter was laid before the Board : —

“ Gentlemen,

“ I hereby resign my situation of physician of the Meath Hospital. In separating myself from my colleagues collectively, I beg leave to say, that I shall ever feel a warm interest in the prosperity of the Hospital, the professional duty of which they perform with so much zeal and ability.

“ I have the honour to be. Gentlemen,

“ Tour most obedient and humble Servant,

- “ P. Harkan.”

Eesolved — “ That Doctor Harkan’s resignation be accepted.”

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Eesolved — “ That the thanks of the Board he returned to Doctor Harkan for his services to the Hospital whilst a member of the Board.”

Dr. Harkan was succeeded bj Doctor Eobert Graves, who was appointed physician on July 31st, 1821.

Harkan is frequently mentioned in the Milesian Magazine by John Brennan, 161, Great Britain-street, Dublin. At page 234 he describes Harkan’s appearance in not very complimentary terms, probably from the fact that Dr. Harkan did not give Dr. Brennan’s turpentine treatment a trial. Harkan it appears had a very severe attack of small-pox in his youth, which marked his face badly, giving his countenance a rather swarthy appearance.

Harkan married in January, 1810, Catherine, daughter of James Egan, Esq., of Dumblany, Tuam, Co. Galway. They were married in Dublin. His wife died in October, 1860, and was buried in Glasnevin cemetery. Patrick Harkan died in July, 1861, at his residence, 44, Upper Sackville Street, and was also buried in Glasnevin. The surviving children at his death, in 1861, were six, viz. : — 1, Eleanor; 2, Mary Anne (died May, 1887); 3, Peter (died September, 1882); 4, John F. Harkan, a solicitor (residing at 26, Brookfield terrace, Donnybrook) ; 5, William Edmund (died March, 1885); 6, Henry Harkan, Deputy Inspector-General Eoyal Navy (retired list).

WHITLEY STOKES.

Professor of Medicine, 1819-28, E.C.S.I.

Physician to the Hospital from 1818 to 1826.

Whitley Stokes was born in Waterford, 1763. His father^ the Eev. Gabriel Stokes, an ex-F.T.C.D., was Chancellor of the Cathedral of Waterford and master of an endowed school ; and his grandfather, Gabriel, was Deputy-Surveyor of Ireland. Having received a good education in his father’s school at Waterford, he entered Trinity College, and obtaining in 1781 a scholarship, graduated B.A. in 1783. His thirst for knowledge of every kind was very great, and he devoted so much of his time to close study that his health suffered severely. He

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resolved to compete for a Fellowship, but when in 1788 the day of trial arrived he was so weak and emaciated that it became necessary to carry him into the Examination Hall. His courage, however, proved equal to the occasion, and, after a severe competition, he won the Fellowship. In the following year he proceeded to the degree of M.A. Having studied medicine in both Dublin and Edinburgh, he graduated in Dublin both as M.B. and M.D. in 1793, and he also took in that year a medical degree in Edinburgh.

Stokes became a member of the Society of United Irishmen at a time when their proceedings were of a constitutional character ; but he retired from active participation in their operations about 1792, at which period they began to assume a revolutionary aspect. It was, however, a matter of notoriety that his sympathies were with the National party, and accordingly he was cited to appear before Lord Clare and the other “Visitors ” of Trinity College, in April, 1798.

Although there was not the slightest proof of Stokes’s complicity with the doings of the United Irishmen from the time that they had become a secret organization, he was suspended from his Fellowship for a period of one year. His suspension was not for the commission of seditious acts, but for his sympathy with the principles advocated by Grattan, Cun*an, and other Irish patriots. Although he early withdrew from the Society of the United Irishmen he seems to have retained their esteem, for even one of the most revolutionary of them — Wolfe Tone — wrote of Stokes that he was “ The very best man I have ever known.”

Stokes’s moral nature was pure and exalted. His conscien- tiousness was extreme. He was gentle, kind, unselfish, and generous. “ Erinensis,” the bitter satirist on medical men, wiped the venom from his pen when he wrote of him. Another of his professional brethren. Dr. Brennan, though he reflects upon Stokes's costume, extols his charity in the following lines —

“ If he asked for his coat, he gave with it his waist-coat,

Tho’ uo riiuikct Street man would give much for his best-coat.”

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He was a most agreeable companion, always ready to communi- cate the information of which he had such stores at hand, and it is said that the evenings spent in his society were most enjoy- able. He was a fluent and earnest lecturer. He was a pious man, and there is reason to believe that his “ Eeply ” to Paine’s “Age of Eeason ” largely counteracted the effect which that book had produced upon the minds of the students of the University, as well as many others.

Stokes was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians, 20th November, 1795, and was elected an Honorary Fellow, 15th January, 1816. On the 10th June, 1805, he was co-opted a Senior Fellow of Trinity College ; but having, from scruples of a religious character, resigned his Fellowship, he was in 1816 appointed Lecturer on Natural History to the College. He devoted himself enthusiastically to the duties of his lectureship, teaching mineralogy, geology, as well as botany and zoology ; and, indeed accepting, the most comprehensive definition of the province of natural history. He proved the igneous origin of the granites, and was the first to suggest the planetary cerolites, or shooting stars — a theory now universally accepted. Under his direction the minerals in Trinity College museum were arranged, and a j)lan, which he submitted to the herbarium, was in great part adopted by the founder of the beautiful gardens at Glasnevin — the idea of establishing the Dublin Zoological Gardens originated in his mind. His love of natui’o was, indeed, profound : he ardently investigated it, but soon realised how little is known of its mysteries. He must have felt how truthful are the words of Goethe, that —

“ Dio mide gricflich hohen Werke Siud hen’lich uise am ersten Sag.”

On the 5th June, 1819, Stokes succeeded Cheyne as Professor of Medicine to the College of Surgeons, and retained that office up to 1828. On the 14th December, 1818, he was elected physician to the Meath Hospital — a position which he vacated in favour of his son in 1826.

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Although Stokes devoted so large a portion of his time to purely scientific investigations, yet he was not unmindful of his functions as a physician. He appears to have had but little private practice, hut he was ever ready to administer to the wants of the sick poor. He worked during the great ejiidemics of typhus fever ; and in a treatise on “ Contagion ” he strongly advocated the isolation of the sick, the purification of their dwellings and clothings, and the establishment of district hospitals.

Stokes’s treatise on Eespiration is well known. In 1814 he caused to be printed at his own expense an English-Irish Dictionary, and two years later, he published a pamphlet in which he combated the theories of Dr. Malthus on population, which at that time excited great attention. He wooed the muses, and not unsuccessfully. Of painting and music he was an excellent judge, and his poetical compositions, though few, fairly entitle him to a high place amongst the group of minor poets. The following lines on the shamrock were written on the occasion of the entry of George IV. into Dublin, in 1821, Stokes being then in his fifty-eight year ; they are perhaps the most inferior of his compositions, but they show his patriotic spirit; —

Fair plant ! beloved with rooted truth,

And watered by my tears,

The bitter trial of my youth,

The solace of my years.

Lov’d, honor’d plant, too long oppressed.

Beneath the foot of Pride,

At length unfold thy beaming breast.

And cast the dust aside.

Belov’d ! revive — your King appears.

To wipe your tears away ;

The sorrow of a thousand years,

Are vanishing to day.

His aged head, thy grateful breast Shall soothe to safe repose ;

Free from the thorns that still infest The Thistle and the Rose

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Stokes married in 1^97, Mary Anne, daughter of John Picknoll, J.P., of Loughgall, a gentleman of landed jiroperty in the north of Ireland. She died in 1842, and her husband passed away, on the 13th April, 1845, at the age of eighty-two, and was interred in a family tomb which he had caused to be built at Taney Church, Dundrum, Co. Dublin.

EOBEPT JAMES GEAVES, M.D.

Physician to the Hospital prom 1821 to 1843.

E. J. Graves was descended from Colonel Graves, who com- manded a regiment of cavalry in Cromwell’s army, and having settled in Ireland, acquired considerable landed property in the Co. Limerick. Dr. Graves’ father, Eichard, son of the Vicar of Kilfinane, county of Limerick, was a man of conspicuous ability'. He had a distinguished undergraduate career in Trinity College, taking a scholarship in iTT^, and winning numerous prizes. He took Holy Orders and became a Fellow T.C.D., in and

subsequently was appointed Dean of Ardagh. His Miterary works (of which twenty-seven have been collected and published in four volumes), are of a high order of merit, and he acquired great celebrity for his lectures on the “ Pentateuch.” He married Eliza, daughter of James Drought, D.D., Professor of Divinity, T.C.D. , and a member of an ancient family in the King’s County. Their son Eobert James, was born on the 27th March, 1797, iu Dublin. He was educated, first, by the Eev. Ealph Wilde (who, in 1782, had won a scholarship in Trinity College), secondly, by Mr. Levy, a well-known teacher. Having entered Trinity College he passed through an undergraduate course, in which ho almost rivalled his father. At his entrance he took first place, and in all his subsequent examinations save two, he won the first premium. On taking his Fellow Commoner’s degree, ho received the gold medal for having entered for every examin- ation open to him, and obtaining a valde in omnibus. In 1815 he graduated in Arts, becoming an M.B. in 1818, and an M.D, in 1841. Having decided upon medicine as his profession, ho

ROHERT JAMES ('.RAVES, M.D..

PhVSICIAN to TIIK IlOSl'ITAl. I KOM 1821 TO 1S43. (From Statue in College 0/ J'/tysicians.)

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studied in every part of it, with the utmost ardour, not confining himself to the School of Physic, but working also in the College School. He early recognised the importance of morbid anatomy to the pathologist, and never neglected the opportunities for extending his knowledge of disease, which post-mortem ex- amination offered. The years 1818, 1819, and 1820, were spent by Graves studying in foreign universities. During two years he was a pupil of Professors Stromeyer and Blumenback, of Gottingen, and of Hufeland and Behrend, of Berlin. In Copenhagen he studied under the eminent Professor Cohlston. During his sojourn on the continent he met with many adventures. On one occasion he was confined for ten days in a dungeon, in an Austrian