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It is interesting to note that Molyneux records for the first 

 time Saxifraga Umbrosa as a Kerry plant in 1697, and, as he 

 states, " vulgarly called by the gardeners London Pride," 

 it must have been already familiar in cultivation. 



Allen Mullen, whose work on the comparative anatomy of 

 the eye and his attempt to calculate the amount of blood 

 in the human body have received the approbation of Sprengel 

 and Von Haller, was one of the most original members of the 

 Dublin Society. He died in Barbadoes, it is said, from a surfeit 

 of the wine of that country. 



Many Irishmen never returned to their native land but 

 gained fame in the country of their adoption. Amongst these 

 may be mentioned Doctor Thady Dunn, who in 1538, shortly 

 after the publication of Kenny's Catechism (the first book 

 printed in Ireland) published his Epistolae Medicinales. He 

 was domiciled at Locarno, Switzerland. In his De Morbis 

 Mulieribus he advocates the warm bath in tedious labour. 



Neil O'Ciacan, a native of Donegal was appointed 

 physician to the King of France and was privy councillor of 

 that kingdom ; he was successively professor of physic at the 

 universities of Toulouse and Bologne. His principal writings 

 are Tractus De Peste, 1629, and Cursus Medicus, 1655. 

 Bernard O'Connor, a Kerryman, studied at Mont Pelier ; 

 he was later a physician to John Sobieski, King of Poland. 

 His works are — De Hwmani Hypogastri Sarcomatei, Disser- 

 tations Medicophysicae and the Evangelium Medici, in which 

 he advances the opinion that fecundation is possible without 

 the actual contact of the sexes. At the age of thirty-two 

 O'Connor died in London, 1698. 



The subject matter of a work, Ireland's Natural History, by 

 Arnold Boate, a Dutchman, practising in Dublin in 1649, 

 entitles it to mention here. 



