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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    pies, fossils, and such other curiosities as are mentioned in the Society’s proposals.” Butler likewise made a cata¬ logue of plants and minerals found in various parts of this kingdom, which was recorded by the Society, who also ap¬ pear to have had a Museum where objects in natural history, cinerary urns, fossils, minerals, manuscripts, and an Hortus Siccus of Irish Plants, were preserved: which collection, probably, merged into that of the University, or perhaps the Dublin Society. Dr. Rutty produced at the Society’s meetings samples and analyses of the Waters of Scarborough, Kilbrew, in the county of Meath, a chalybeate found near Athlone, and the various mineral springs in the county of Dublin ; and Mr. Thomas Hoare, an apothecary in this city at that time, was paid for their analyses. Catalogues of the Fauna of the county of Dublin were likewise made, as also specimens of these presented to the Society, and preserved in their collection. The Physico-Historical Society does not appear to have existed longer than three years. The last entry in the Minute Book, preserved in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, bears date the 17th of September, 1747. The medical members appear to have been the most indus¬ trious, as well as to have remained longest attached to this body, and medical papers were, for the last year, the most numerous. Several efforts were made to revive this body, the last of which ended with the death of Rutty, in 1775. We have reason to believe that abstracts of some of its papers were published in Faulkner’s Newspapers(5), and also the Rev. Mr. Droz’s Journal, the first literary periodical that ever appeared in this country, and which was started the same year as the Physico-Historical Society. understand why its geological features should not be likewise considered se¬ parately, except that by including them under one general head a plausible excuse is offered for thus quashing the memoir of the Irish Survey altogether. (/>) The Dublin Journal, 1744,—and also The Monitor or British Free¬ holder, 17-37,—Dublin, printed by George Faulkner, in Essex-street.