Annals of medical history . ross the Irish eventually Ire-land had a Renais-sance which, thoughlate, was noble. Itbegan with medi-cine and spread toHterature and phys-ical science, indeedto all departmentsof learning. The re-vival, as far as itconcerned medi- t>^P cine, was in every ^ way remarkableand gave the Dub- .^ lin Medical School : in the first half ofthe nineteenth cen-tury a place of thehighest importanceand made of it acenter whence thecontinent of Europeand the schools ofthis country drewinspiration. We shall better understand the position ofthe Irish school if we review
Annals of medical history . ross the Irish eventually Ire-land had a Renais-sance which, thoughlate, was noble. Itbegan with medi-cine and spread toHterature and phys-ical science, indeedto all departmentsof learning. The re-vival, as far as itconcerned medi- t>^P cine, was in every ^ way remarkableand gave the Dub- .^ lin Medical School : in the first half ofthe nineteenth cen-tury a place of thehighest importanceand made of it acenter whence thecontinent of Europeand the schools ofthis country drewinspiration. We shall better understand the position ofthe Irish school if we review briefly thehistory of the medical schools in first to emerge from the undifferentiatedscholasticism of the Middle Ages was that ofSalerno, whose infiuence, though short-lived, was enormous while it lasted. Mont-pellier took its place and is rememberedamong other things as the school wherethe great Sydenham studied. Next came the There was an ancient law in Ireland that a manwho was not perfect could not be William Stokes. University of Paris and that of Padua; thelatter though not disputing even remotelythe palm with Paris, nevertheless was thealma mater of many great men. Paris fromthe time of that great Franciscan friar,Roger Bacon, of Albertus Magnus, and ofPetrus Hispanus never lost its high placeexcept during thedelirious period ofthe French Revolu-tion. The Univer-sity of Leyden camenext as a Mecca andthen Vienna, whichbrings us downalmost to the latterhalf of the eigh-teenth century. About this time,the EdinburghSchool emergedupon the horizonand became asteady beacon light,shining with specialwarmth upon theAmerican Coloniesand soon after uponthe young inde-pendent nation. Itis no part of mytask to discuss atany length the in-fluence of the Edin-burgh School uponAmerican medicine,and I am referringto it merely because it is closely con-nected in aim and spirit with the DublinSchool; and also because, in the formativeperiod of our national life, a great
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