A Journey Beyond The Logical Mind

Salam to all.

This is why.

Robert Graves, William Stokes, Dominic Corrigan and Sir Peter Freyer of Galway stand out among an impressive number of distinguished Irish Medical Scientists of the 19th century.

The name of Graves is associated with overactivity of the thyroid gland, Graves disease;

William Stokes and his colleague, John Cheyne, described Cheyne-Stokes respiration associated with terminal illness;

Stokes and Robert Adams described an abnormality of the heart known worldwide as Stokes-Adams syndrome, and Corrigan's pulse is associated with disease of one of the heart valves.

Peter Freyer, physician to the Nawab of Rampur, brought into common use the operation of Suprapubic Prostatectomy.

Perhaps the most important contribution however of these world renowned figures to Irish Medicine was, for its time, a revolutionary new form of medical education whereby students were instructed at the bedside of the patient. This type of practical bedside teaching is carried on today in modern well-equipped hospitals and academic departments where it is combined with thorough instruction in the structure and function of the human body and in the scientific basis of disease. It is this combination of medical science and clinical expertise that makes Irish University Medical education a world leader.

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