Ireland’s first school of medicine

Prior to the eighteenth century Ireland’s physicians had trained in Europe—in France, Belgium, Italy, Holland or England. When medicine became well established in Scotland, many Irish medical students, especially those from Ulster, went there. Leiden The teaching of medicine in seventeenth-century Europe had followed developments in science, and the University of Leiden in Holland had ... Read more

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