Dominic Corrigan
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Sir Dominic Corrigan (b. 1802, in Dublin, Ireland; d. there, 1880) was a physician, known for his original observations in heart disease, after whom a special type of pulse is named.
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[edit] Birth and Education
The son of a poor shopkeeper, his early education was obtained at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, which then had a department for secular students apart from the ecclesiastical seminary. He was attracted to the study of medicine by the physician in attendance. After several years of medical study in Dublin he followed the prevailing custom of the time and went to Edinburgh where he received his degree as M.D. in 1825.
[edit] Early Career
After his return to Dublin he was appointed physician to the Jervis Street Hospital, which had only six medical beds. During the next four years he studied certain forms of heart disease to such good purpose that he recast the teaching of diseases of the aortic valves. His article on "Permanent Patency of the Aortic Valves" appeared in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal for April, 1832. In 1842 the London Royal College of Surgeons conferred on him its diploma. In 1849 he received from the University of Dublin the honorary degree of M.D. He was known as a very hard-working physician, especially during the Irish Potato Famine.
[edit] Honours
He was created a baronet partly as a reward for his services as Commissioner of Education many years. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Dublin for five years after 1869, before being replaced by Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun. Corrigan had supported the Sunday Closing Bill, and it is suggested by some that this had antagonized alcohol companies[1]. He was President of the Royal Zoological Society of Dublin, the Dublin Pathological Society, and the Dublin Pharmaceutical Society, and unprecedentedly was five times elected President of the College of Physicians in Dublin. Armand Trousseau, the French clinician, proposed that aortic heart disease should be called Corrigan's disease.
[edit] Notes
- ^ See Agnew (1965). The Catholic Encyclopedia says that this contributed to his electoral defeat in 1874; however, other sources state that he did not contest that election.
[edit] Sources
- Sketches in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet (1880);
- WALSH, Makers of Modern Medicine (New York, 1907).
- This article incorporates text from the entry Sir Dominic Corrigan in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
- R. A. L. Agnew (1965). "The achievement of Dominic John Corrigan". Medical History 9: 230–240. PMID 14321566.