Dublin's medical schools : a biographical retrospect / [William Doolin].

  • Doolin, William, 1887-1962.
Date:
1952
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Credit: Dublin's medical schools : a biographical retrospect / [William Doolin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    accurate conception of that historic problem. For many years before his death (1925) he had been President of the National Literary Society; he had then served his college for 58 unbroken years. street, Bermingham was the same inspiring source of energy that William Dease had been to the infant school of the Surgeons' College in Mercer's Street a century earlier. He was the focus point of the talented group of enthusiastic young men around him —Denis Coffey (Physiology), E. J. McWeeney (Pathology), and John S. McArdle, the colourful and dynamic Professor of Surgery. With these devoted aides, he raised the young school of Newman's foundation from having been smallest to what it was as the new century opened (and still remains), the largest medical school in Ireland. As a teacher he was all-inspiring. Dublin's earlier anatomists had all been practising surgeons1, but by the early '80s the teaching of anatomy had become a whole-time profession, and Bermingham had as colleagues through his active 1William Doolin. Dublin's Surgeon-Anatomists. Vicary Lecture, Annals of R.C.S. Eng., Jan., 1951. AMBROSE BERMINGHAM With Sigerson in his autumn years the picturesque doyen of the School, Ambrose Berming- ham was its driving force. From the day of his graduation as first of first in the Final M.B. of the Royal University (1887), he had devoted himself exclusively to the study of anatomy. Appointed Professor of Anatomy within a few months of graduation, in succession to Dr. (later Sir) Christopher Nixon, and not long after as Registrar, in the struggling school hidden away in a quayside