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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    end of the fifteenth century, by the celebrated Conrad Celtes, progressed medicine; afterwards the Academia Naturae Curio- sorum, founded in 1652, by Bauschius, but since known under the title of the Leopold Academy, published papers connected with medical science; subsequently, the Medical Academy of Palermo, and the Montpellier physicians, together with the academies and chartered societies of London, Paris, Peters- burgh, Berlin, and other European capitals, to a certain degree fostered the healing art, and encouraged medical dis¬ coveries, by printing articles on such subjects in their literary records. At the conclusion of the seventeenth century, there were no learned societies in existence in Ireland, and, there¬ fore, the few essays that emanated from the Dublin literati on scientific subjects w|re published by the Royal Society of London, which was at that particular period, by the influence of Boyle, W. Molyneaux, St. George Ashe, and other dis¬ tinguished Irishmen, induced to look favourably on the pro¬ ductions of their brethren in the West. It is scarcely necessary to observe, that in this brief sketch wTe do not include the history of medicine in Ireland, nor even attempt to catalogue the names and labours of the many distinguished writers, both in the original tongue, and in Latin and English, who flourished during the last five centu¬ ries in this island. Sir James Ware has enumerated several of these, and we have in another place thrown our mite into this valuable treasury(a). Those who have taken any interest in the scientific and literary progress of this country during the last ten years, must be aware of the valuable collections of manuscript medical works in the Irish character which the Royal Irish Academy and the University have, with becoming taste, possessed themselves of;—besides which there are several in the hands of private individuals. When all these shall have been thoroughly examined and investigated by competent persons, and their contents arranged (a) Sec notices of Irish medical Manuscripts in the Census for Ireland, 1841.