biography
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Wilde, Sir William (Robert Wills)
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| lived:
| (1815–76)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Castlerea, Co Roscommon, WC Ireland. He studied at London, Berlin, and Vienna, and on his return to Dublin served as medical commissioner on the Irish Census (1841 and 1851), publishing a major medical report, The Epidemics of Ireland (1851). The same year he married Jane Elgee and, in 1854, she gave birth to their son Oscar. He wrote on ocular and aural surgery, pioneered the operation for mastoiditis, invented an ophthalmoscope, and founded St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital. He was an antiquarian of significance, publishing a major catalogue of the holdings of the Royal Irish Academy. |
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