Book Review: The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Its Medical School 1784–1966

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and its Medical School, 1784–1966

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and its Medical School, 1784-1966, by J. D. H. WIDDESS, 2nd ed., Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1967, pp. viii, 152, illus., 35s. When it first appeared eighteen years ago Professor Widdess's book emphasized the importance of the Schools of Surgery, really a general medical school, founded in Dublin by the Irish College of Surgeons in 1789, f...

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Keynote address: 'Old men and selfish spermatogonia: how much do they contribute to the mutation burden?' We present a study on a non-consanguineous Irish family that includes two siblings (male and female) with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and chorioretinopathy. The children have been extensively investigated by the cardiac, metabolic and genetic teams but the genetic basis of their disorder r...

The bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1784-1984.

In 1984 the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland celebrates the 200th anniversary of the granting of its charter by George III in 1784. To mark this historic occasion the council of the college under the president, Professor Eoin O'Malley, will meet on 6 March 1984 in the board room of the Rotunda Hospital, where the first council sat with its president, Samuel Croker King. The bicentenary will...

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

EDITORIAL A. D. Redmond, North Staffordshire Trauma Centre, Princes Road, BOARD Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7GJ, U.K. V. Dallos, Whipps Cross Hospital, Whipps Cross Road, Leytenstone, London Eli, U.K. K. Little, The Royal Infirmary, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9YW, U.K. M. A. Mason, Medway Hospital, Windmill Road, Gillingham, Kent ME7 5NY, U.K. D. J. Williams, St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth...

The Belfast Medical School and Its Surgeons