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Transactions of the Medical Society of the College of Physicians. On the importance of the application of physiology to the practice of medicine and surgery

  • Part III. Medical Miscellany
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Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science

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  1. His biography has yet to be written. See a memoir of him in The Dublin University Magazine for 184.1; and a psychological notice of him in a paper of mine entitled, A Short Biographical Notice of a Remarkable Case of Insanity.-Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, February, 1864.

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  1. See Sterne Richard, in Chalmers’ Biographical Dictionary. Lond., 1812–17.

  2. Information from Rev. Dr. Todd. See also the Life of Laurence Sterne, by Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., M.E.I.A. Two vols. London. 1864.

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  1. Bernard’s Life of Archbishop James Ussher. London. 1656.

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  1. The following dedication (dated 1657) is prefixed to his Animi Medela:-“Almæ Matri Cantabrigise Academiarum longè celeberrimse, hane suam qualis qualis est Animi Medelam. In Summe gratitudinis testimonium, maximæqúe observantiæ monumentum, ob factura, quum in Angliam quasi extorris appulisset, humanissiméque exceptua esaet, literarum otium, offert, ejusdemq, censuræ irrefragibili submittit Johannes Stearne nuper Collegii Sidneiani in eâdem Academiâ alumnus.” See note of Barrett’s conversation with Monck Mason (History of S. Patrick’s Cathedral, p. 220). Sir James Ware also says he became a fellow, and was ejected by the usurpers.

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  1. “At this period (1600) it appears to have been the practice to appoint masters of arts lecturers, who assumed by degrees the name and privilege of fellows.” Vol. i. Ussher’s Life, by Ellington. See also Eev. Dr. Todd’s Introduction to Dublin University Calendar, 1833.

  2. Barrett’s MSS., p. 284.

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  1. Monck Mason (Hist. of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, p. 220) says “hemarried and resigned his fellowship.”

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  1. This house was afterwards a military hospital, and “Tailor’s Hall” now stands on its site.-Census of Ireland for 1851, Report and Status of Disease, p. 91.

  2. A copy of the lease or assignment of Trin. Hall toT.C.D., is on p. 236, of the oldest book now among the Coll. Records. This book is bound in vellum, and marked on the cover “11 Very Old Accounts.” Inside is written “Thomas D’Olin, Generosus Dono dedithunc librum in usum fraternitatis Anise Trinitatis, die 14to Julii, 1664.” It contains the Coll. accounts to 1705, besides recorda of elections to offices and fellowships.

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  1. Barrett’s MSS., p.65.

  2. In Taylor’s History of the University of Dublin (Lond., 1845), opposite to the title page is an engraving of the old-fashioned gown of an M.A., or Fellow of T.C.D. It is of the same pattern as that still (Nov. 1864) used by certain office bearers of the College of Physicians.

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  1. For a memoir of Paul De Laune, M.D., see Munk’s Boll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Vol. i., p. 160. (Lond., 1861.)

  2. This letter is printed in Gilbert’s Hist. of Dublin, Vol. iii., p. 9.

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  1. Monck Mason’s Hist. of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, p. 229.

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  1. Barrett’s MSS.

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  1. See in Dr. A. Smith’s “Early History, & c.,” an account of the differences between the two colleges which led to the alienation of Trinity Hall. In the book already de-scribed in a note as “11. Very Old Accounts,” (and which I shall here call “D’Olin’s book”), among the accounts, 1680–83, is this entry of a receipt:-“De Collegio Trini-tatis juxta Dublin pro resignatione Aulæ Trinitatis, £070.OOs.’OOd.” Thia meant the cancelling of the deed of 1661, which, according to Barrett’s MSS., occurred in 1680, when new terms were agreed to. “A portion of its site is occupied bythe Alms House of St. Andrew’s Parish.”-Gilbert’s Hist, of Dublin, p. 17, Vol. iii.

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  1. Henry Dodwell (see his life by Fras. Brokesley, 1715, also Ware’s Writers, and Wood’s Athenæ, Oxon.) was educated in T.C.D., of which he became a Fellow in 1662. Unwilling to take Holy Orders, he resigned his Fellowship in 1666, and retired to England. In 1688 he was elected Oamden Professor of History at Oxford, but, being a non-juror, resigned shortly after the revolution. He died at Shottesbrooke, in 1714, having been through life held in high esteem for his learning and piety, and particularly for his qualities as a Theologian and a Philosopher. He was a very voluminous writer, and when a Fellow of T.C.D. was celebrated as a preacher of “Common-places” (Communes Loci) in the College Chapel. This practice, not very long disused, was then highly valued. Every resident M.A., whether clerk or layman, was required, in his turn, to deliver short sermons (ad modum Theologicæ Concionis) on Friday and Sunday Evenings. Nor was the lay practice confined to the college; it was at one time common in Christ Church Cathedral, where Stcarne’s distinguished grand-uncle first acquired fame as a licensed lay preacher. The Rev. Dr. Carson, F.T.C.D., tells me that he himself discharged this duty when a layman; and that its disuse arose from its practical inconvenience in the present day. “Common-places” could not exceed half an hour in length.-See Caroline Statutes of T.C.D, cap; xvi.

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Brown-Sequard Transactions of the Medical Society of the College of Physicians. On the importance of the application of physiology to the practice of medicine and surgery. Dub.Quart.J.Med.Sci. 39, 421–466 (1865). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02955749

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