Alexander Read (surgeon)
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Alexander Read (1786 – 18 July 1870)[2] was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1825 and 1835.[3]
Alexander Read was born in Downpatrick and received an MA from Trinity College Dublin in 1827. Read was indentured as a surgeon to Sir Henry Jebb and he was subsequently elected a Member of RCSI in 1810. Read was Surgeon to Mercer's, the Blue Coat, and Simpson's Hospitals, and to Dublin's prisons.[2] According to Cameron in his History of RCSI, Alexander Read was esteemed a skilful surgeon, and he had a large purely medical practice. He had a taste for scientific studies, and for a while lectured on medical jurisprudence at the Park-street School of Medicine, and he was subsequently connected with the Richmond Hospital School.[2]
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[edit]- ^ Dublin delineated in twenty-six views, etc. Dublin: G. Tyrrell, 1837. p. 49.
- ^ a b c Cameron, Sir Charles A. (1886) History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and of the Irish Schools of Medicine &c Dublin: Fannin & Co. p. 384.
- ^ RCSI Presidents since its foundation in 1784. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
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