Meath Hospital
Hospital in Dublin, Ireland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Meath Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal na Mí) was a general hospital in the Earl of Meath's Liberty in Dublin, Ireland. It was absorbed into the Tallaght Hospital in June 1998.
| Meath Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Health Service Executive | |
 Meath Hospital, now a respite home | |
  Shown in Dublin | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°20′09″N 6°16′11″W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | HSE |
| Type | General |
| History | |
| Opened | 1753 |
| Closed | 1998 |
The hospital was opened to serve the sick and poor in the crowded area of the Liberties in Dublin in 1753.[1] It then moved to larger premises in Heytesbury Street in 1822.[2]
In the nineteenth century the Meath Hospital achieved worldwide fame as a result of the revolutionary teaching methods and groundbreaking research carried out by Robert Graves and William Stokes, physicians of the hospital. One example was when during a typhus epidemic Robert Graves introduced the revolutionary idea of giving food during the illness ("he fed fevers" was what Graves requested be inscribed on his tombstone).[3]
It was absorbed into the Tallaght Hospital in June 1998.[4] The original building was subsequently converted for use as a respite home.[5]
Notable physicians included:
- John Cheyne (1777–1836), appointed a physician in the hospital in 1811.[6]
- Sir Philip Crampton (1777–1858), appointed surgeon to the hospital in 1798 (though not fully qualified).[7]
- Patrick Harkan, of Raheen, County Roscommon, appointed a physician in the hospital in 1817. He later went on to the Cork Street Fever Hospital, where he remained for forty years.[8]
- Francis Rynd (1801-1861), physician and inventor of the hypodermic syringe.[9]
- Thomas Hawkesworth Ledwich (1823–1858), appointed to take over from Philip Crampton in 1858.[10]
- Rawdon Macnamara (1822–1893), appointed a surgeon in 1861 (a post his father had occupied).[11]
- Arthur Wynne Foot, physician and curator to the hospital's pathological museum before leaving to become a lecturer in the Ledwich School.[12]
- Sir Lambert Ormsby (1850-1923), appointed a surgeon to the hospital in 1872 and provided service for over fifty years.[13]
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