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part of this time he was Surgeon to the Eadnorshire Militia, which 

 oflB.ce, however, was not allowed to interfere with his scientific or 

 professional pursuits. In 1811 he accompanied that Eegiment to 

 Ireland, and in 1813, the Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery iu 

 Trinity College having become vacant by the death of Dr. Hartigan, 

 he presented himself as a candidate, and was elected. 



*' For twenty-four years Dr. Macartney discharged the duties of 

 that important oflBce with unexampled zeal and industry, and used 

 his utmost exertions to improve medical education. He endea- 

 voured to establish a course of lectures on Comparative Anatomy, 

 but circumstances prevented his plan being at the time carried out. 

 He was, however, successful in arranging a separate course on Pa- 

 thology, and in conjunction with Dr. Jacob, then his Demonstrator, 

 he instituted a dispensary for the special treatment of diseases of 

 the eye and ear. As a lecturer, his manner, though unadorned by 

 the arts of verbal eloquence, became highly popular from the sound 

 ideas which he imparted, and the distinct and logical language in 

 which they were clothed. His classes were always very large, and 

 by his means the reputation of the Medical School of the University 

 of Dublin was materially elevated. 



" He resigned his Professorship in 1837, but still continued his 

 application to scientific pursuits. On the 5th of the present month 

 (March) he was seized with apoplexy, and died on the following 

 morning. 



" In a literary point of view, Dr. Macartney's contributions to 

 medical and zoological science were numerous and important. In 

 1803 he commenced writing for Eees' Cyclopaedia, to which he 

 supplied the articles — ' Cornparative Anatomy, Vegetahle Ana- 

 tomy. Bezoar. Anatomy qf Birds. Classification of Animals. 

 Anatomy of the Egg. Anatomy of Fishes. Incubation. Ana- 

 tomy of Mammalia.^ In the Philosophical Transactions he pub- 

 lished a memoir on Luminous Animals, and contributed many minor 

 papers to the British Association, and to the Academie de Medicine 

 of Paris. His large work on Inflammation, containing his chief 

 discoveries in physiology and surgery, was published in Dublin 

 in 1 838 ; and in the Transactions of this Academy there are by him 

 two valuable memoirs, the first in vol. xiii., on Curvature of the 

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