Some lesser known Irish physicians.

THE Osler Club was founded to commemorate the name of one of the greatest and best-known physicians of all time, and it seemed fitting that at the Society's first meeting in Dublin the opening paper should try to pay tribute to some other physicians who, given the time, place and opportunity might have become just as well known, but were fated to work in relative obscurity, 'great' only in the eyes of those whom they served. The first reference to a physician in Ireland appears in Mac Firbis' Genealogy written in the seventeenth century which states 'Thus saith an ancient authority; the first doctor, the first builder and the first fisherman that ever were in Eirinn were:-