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].

  • Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876
Date:
1846
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    that time, who extracted a bodkin from the female bladder ; but even that case was brought before the notice of the Royal Society by Molyneaux. In 1720, Dr. John Rutty published an Account of a Case of Spina Bifida in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1722, Mr. Peter Derante, chirurgeon, of Waterford, gave an account of the amputation of the shoulder joint, by the sloughing of a portion of the scapula and head of the hume¬ rus, from mortification. In 1731 Dr. Thos. Madden described a case of poisoning of two females from simple laurel water, with experiments ; and in 1736 he detailed the dissection of a person who died from having taken two ounces of crude mercury, &c.(,t) In 1734 Mr. John Ferguson, of Strabane, published an account of the extirpation of a portion of the human spleen. In 1739 Dr. John Rutty wrote a Dissertation on Laurel Water. We have no account of either Keogh, O'Connell, Rogers, Robinson, or Hussey, who flourished and wrote about this period, having published anything in the Transactions of learned Societies. The Royal Dublin Society was founded in 1731, and in¬ corporated in 1749. Its aim was, however, chiefly of an agricultural, industrial, and artistic nature, yet its noble garden at Glasnevin, should be enumerated among the medical institutions of this country. It is much to be regretted that the veterinary school and museum, the latter collected by Mr. Percival of London, has lately been allowed to fall to the ground, and its professorship to remain unoccupied since the death of Mr. Peel. “ Chirurgeon-General,” and occupied a house in the Phoenix Park, on the ground belonging to which the Royal Infirmary now stands. It was for de¬ priving him of this that Swift made so fierce an attack on Lord Wharton— See Swift’s “Short Character of His Excellency,Thomas Earl of Wharton,” 1710; Roscoe’s Works of Swift. London, 1841, vol. i. p. 352. (.r) Dr. Thomas Madden, was elected Fellow of the College of Physicians,