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Fotostrecke: Ausstellung "School of Medicine 1711-2011"

Bilder der Ausstellung "School of Medicine 1711-2011" des Trinity College Library Dublin.

Exhibition "School of Medicine 1711-2011"

Early microscope from the 18th century

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Early microscope from the Meath Hospital in Dublin.

Conjoined twins of the 17th century

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Drawing of conjoined twins born in 17th century County Meath in Ireland. The birth of such children were seen as ominous portents in early modern times.

Portrait of the surgeon James Macartney (1770-1843)

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Portrait of Scotsman James Macartney (1770-1843), surgeon and anatomist, who improved the TCD medical school and inspired its students.

Drawing of an exposed brain, early 20th century

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Drawing of exposed brain by medical illustrator S. Sewell, early 20th century.

Juvenile skull and second lower mandible displaying dentition

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In 19th-century education, object-based learning, where individual items represented scientific facts, lead to a fascination with collections of scientific objects. The College’s anatomical and pathological collection, some of it dating from the 18th century, was moved in the late-19th century, from the College Museum in Regent’s House, to the Anatomy Museum.

Surgical saw from the Meath Hospital in Dublin.

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Surgical saw from the Meath Hospital in Dublin. The Meath Hospital was the location for many of the improvements in medical practice and teaching in Ireland in the 19th century.

Pamphlet "On famine and fever as cause and effect in Ireland 1846" of Dominic Corrigan (1846)

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Dominic Corrigan (1802-80) physician
Much of Corrigan’s fame depends on his many and lucid publications on cardiology. His is particularly noted for his description of aortic incompetence. He was a dynamic president of the College of Physicians and served as the first president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. In his pamphlet "On famine and fever as cause and effect in Ireland 1846" he warned the government of the association between these two evils, a prediction that was to become fact the following year.

Engraving of J. N. Maag (1724-1800) shows the Irish giant Cornelius Magrath (1736-60)

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J. N. Maag (c. 1724-1800) engraving of the Irish giant Cornelius Magrath (1736-60) whose skeleton is in the Department of Anatomy in Trinity College. Magrath suffered from agromegaly and grew to be over 7 feet tall.

Nineteenth-century stethoscope

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Nineteenth-century stethoscope from the Meath Hospital.

Death mask of Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

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Death mask of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) dean of St Patrick's Cathedral and author. Swift's bequest led to the founding of St Patrick's Hospital for the treatment of mental illness.

Sketch of an anti-rabis treatment

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Sketch by Edith Somerville (1858-1959) of a patient receiving treatment at the Pasteur anti-rabies clinic in Paris in 1886.

Small medical kit

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Different medicine labelled with information about intakes and medical scope of application.

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