Contributions to the history of medicine in Ireland. Part I, The history of periodic medical literature in Ireland, including notices of the medical and philosophical societies of Dublin / [W.R. Wilde].

  • William Wilde
Date:
1846
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    shall he incident to our correspondences, and we have raised a fund of which to do it. By Moses Pit(7), if not before, you may expect one or two of their discourses at large : for the way is for particular subjects mentioned in the foregoing meeting to be treated on by particular persons the next, and when they have done, every one that lias anything to add or object has his time to express it. I don’t give you the names of our society, be¬ cause you know few of them except the Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, Sir William Petty, and Dr. Willoughby, and besides you will receive it more authentic from the Secretary. Several of the number meet on Sunday nights, as the whole company does on Mondays,to discourse theologically, of God, suppose, and his attributes, and how to establish religion and confute atheism by reason, evidence, and demonstration.” Having complimented Dr. Plot, and conveyed to him the thanks and acknowledgements of this “ young society for the promotion of philosophy, on account of the advantageous correspondence offered to it by the Royal Society,” he encloses him an account of some previous meetings tending to its “ better regulation, settlement, and future transactions,” and also the Minutes for October 15, 1683. When we first commenced this inquiry some years ago, we were under the impression that the Transactions of this society were still in existence, and would one day or another be discover¬ ed, and acknowledged by some of the public libraries or private collections in these kingdoms. We have since, however, con¬ vinced ourselves of the contrary being the fact, and feel assured that no manuscript volume of the Transactions of the Dublin Philosophical Society is, or perhaps ever was in being. The Minute Book of this society, from 1683, to No¬ vember, 1686, with its revival in 1693 and again in 1707, is still preserved in the British Museum (Addit. MSS., (/) Moses Pit, a celebrated London bookseller, and publisher of “ The Atlas.” C