CORK STREET FEVER HOSPITAL - This site covers the history of the first fifty years of Cork Street Fever Hospital
Description: A blog on the history of medicine and the medical humanities in Ireland.
In this blog post, Simone Doyle, a student on UCD's MA in History of Welfare & Medicine in Society , explores the career of Dr Neil John Blayney (1874-1919) using archival material donated to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland's Heritage Centre .
Doctors in Obscurity
Several notable figures tend to dominate our discussions of doctors in the past – Hippocrates, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, John Snow. In Ireland, Francis Rynd (inventor of the hypodermic syringe), and fellow Wexford man, Arthur Leared (inventor of the binaural stethoscope), are arguably our most famous medical men. But what of the lives of the less prominent doctors who served their communities, counties, and country, upheld their Hippocratic oath and were respected members of the medical community? Thank
CORK STREET FEVER HOSPITAL - This site covers the history of the first fifty years of Cork Street Fever Hospital