Conference: The Medical World of Early Modern Ireland, 1500-1750

This conference is taking place at Trinity College Dublin on 3-4 September as part of the Early Modern Practitioners Project. It will feature papers on a broad range of topics, including natural history, midwifery, witchcraft and Gaelic medicine. The research team from Early Modern Practitioners will also be presenting an overview of key aspects of their work.

Professor Marian Lyons of Maynooth University will deliver a keynote address on ‘The Professionalization of Medical Practice in Seventeenth-Century Ireland’.

To view the full programme and to register for this conference, please visit: http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/research/centres/medicalhistory/newsandevents/
events/medical_world_early_modern_ireland/

If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr John Cunningham at cunninjo@tcd.ie.

Professor Jonathan Barry’s essay ‘John Houghton and Medical Practice in William Rose’s London’, about the early modern apothecary, journalist and Fellow of the Royal Society John Houghton, has now been uploaded to our ‘Working Papers’ series.

For a link to the full paper, plus an introduction by Professor Barry, click the ‘Working Papers’ tab.

As part of the project’s commitment to disseminate the findings of our research, we have set up a new section of the website where we will post working papers, drawing out key themes or promoting new research findings.

The first of these papers, a study of barber-surgeons’ ordinances by Dr Margaret Pelling has now been uploaded and can be accessed through the link under the ‘working papers’ tag.