Dominic Corrigan

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Irish physician (1802–1880)

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::summary Irish physician (1802–1880) ::

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nameSir Dominic Corrigan, Bt
imageDominic John Corrigan2crop.jpg
image_size220px
birth_date
birth_placeThomas Street, Dublin, Ireland
death_date
death_placeMerrion Square, Dublin
fieldMedicine
work_institutionsSick Poor Institute, Dublin, Jervis Street Hospital, House of Industry Hospitals
alma_materSt. Patrick's College, Maynooth, University of Edinburgh
known_foraortic valve insufficiency, Corrigan's pulse
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Birth and education

Corrigan was born in Thomas Street, Dublin, the son of a dealer in agricultural tools. He was educated in 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, and spent several years as an apprentice to the local doctor, Edward Talbot O'Kelly. Corrigan studied medicine in Dublin later transferring to Edinburgh Medical School where he received his degree as MD in August 1825.

Career

Corrigan returned to Dublin in 1825 and set up a private practice at 11 Ormond Street, as his practice grew he moved to 12 Bachelors Walk in 1832, and in 1837 to 4 Merrion Square West. Apart from his private practice, Corrigan held many public appointments; he was a physician to Maynooth College, the Sick Poor Institute, the Charitable Infirmary Jervis Street (1830–43) and the House of Industry Hospitals (1840–1866). His work with many of Dublin's poorest inhabitants led to him specialising in diseases of the heart and lungs, and he lectured and published extensively on the subject. He was known as a very hard-working physician, especially during the Great Famine of Ireland. At a by-election in 1870 Corrigan was elected a Liberal Member of Parliament for Dublin. In parliament he actively campaigned for reforms to education in Ireland and the early release of Fenian prisoners. He did not stand for re-election in 1874; his support for temperance and Sunday closing (of pubs) is thought to have antagonised his constituents and alcohol companies.

Honours

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In 1847 Corrigan was appointed physician-in-ordinary to the Queen in Ireland. Two years later he was given an honorary MD from Trinity College. In 1846 Corrigan's application to become a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland was blocked. In 1855 he got around this opposition by sitting the college's entrance exam with the newly qualified doctors. He became a fellow in 1856, and in 1859 was elected president, the first Catholic to hold the position; he was re-elected president an unprecedented four times. There is a statue of Corrigan in the Graves' Hall of the college by John Henry Foley.

He was President of the Royal Zoological Society of Dublin, the Dublin Pathological Society, and the Dublin Pharmaceutical Society. From the 1840s he was a member of the senate of the Queen's University and in 1871 became its vice-chancellor. In 1866 he was created a baronet, of Cappagh and Inniscorrig in the County of Dublin and of Merrion Square in the City of Dublin, partly as a reward for his services as Commissioner of Education for many years. He was a member of the board of Glasnevin Cemetery and a member of the Daniel O'Connell Memorial Committee. Armand Trousseau, the French clinician, proposed that aortic heart disease should be called Corrigan's disease.

The Corrigan Ward, a cardiology ward in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin is named in his honour. Part of his family crest is also part of the Beaumont Hospital crest.

Family and death

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Corrigan married Joanna Woodlock, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and sister of the Bishop Dr. Bartholomew Woodlock, in 1827. They had six children, three girls and three boys. Corrigan's eldest son, Captain John Joseph CORRIGAN, Dragoon Guards, died on 6 January 1866 aged 35 years and is interred at the Melbourne General Cemetery, Melbourne, Australia. His grandson succeeded him to the baronetcy. Corrigan died at Merrion Square, Dublin, on 1 February 1880, having suffered a stroke the previous December, and is buried in the crypt of St. Andrews Church on Westland Row, Dublin.

Arms

|escutcheon = Or a chevron between two trefoils slipped Vert in chief and a lizard in base Proper. |crest = A sword in pale point downwards in front thereof two battleaxes in saltire all Proper. |notes = Granted 6 March 1860 by Sir John Berard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. |motto = Consilio Et Impetu}}

References

Bibliography

  • {{cite journal |author=R. A. L. Agnew |title=The Achievement of Dominic John Corrigan |journal=Medical History |volume=9 |date= 1 July 1965 |pages=230–240 |pmid=14321566 |issue=3 |pmc=1033503 |doi=10.1017/s0025727300030726
  • {{cite journal |last=Berry |first=Diana |date=September 2006 |title=History of medicine: Sir Dominic Corrigan, MD |journal=Circulation |volume=114 |issue=10 |pages=f140 |pmid = 16955551
  • {{cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Mark |date=December 2003 |title=Acting the part. As HHS' interim IG, Corrigan says she's able to use every skill she's ever developed in her leading role |journal=Modern Healthcare |volume=33 |issue=48 |pages=33–4 |pmid = 14666842
  • {{cite journal |last=Ventura |first=Hector O |year=2003 |title=History of heart failure |journal=Congestive Heart Failure |volume=9 |issue=5 |page=293 |pmid = 14564149 |doi = 10.1111/j.1527-5299.2003.02205.x
  • {{cite journal |last=Stone |first=J |date=August 1986 |title=Sir Dominic John Corrigan |journal=Clinical Cardiology |volume=9 |issue=8 |pages=403–6 |pmid = 3524937 |doi = 10.1002/clc.4960090809

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  • {{cite journal |last=O'Brien |first=E |year=1984 |title=Sir Dominic Corrigan (1802–1880): doctor and parliamentarian |journal=Studies |volume=73 |issue=290 |pages=146–58 |pmid = 11636081
  • {{cite journal |doi=10.1056/NEJM198102053040629 |last=O'Brien |first=E T |date=February 1981 |title=The man behind the eponym: Sir Dominic John Corrigan (1802—1880) |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=304 |issue=6 |pages=365–6 |pmid = 7003395
  • {{cite journal |last=O'Brien |first=E |year=1980 |title=The Lancet maketh the man? Sir Dominic John Corrigan (1802—80) |journal=Lancet |volume=2 |issue=8208–8209 |pages=1356–7 |pmid = 6109167 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(80)92414-9 |s2cid=22750594 ;Attribution
  • Cites:
  • Sketches in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet (1880);
  • Walsh, Makers of Modern Medicine (New York, 1907).

References

  1. O'Brien, Eoin (1983) ''Conscience and Conflict. Sir Dominic Corrigan 1802–1880''. Glendale Press, Dublin. {{ISBN. 0907606164.
  2. {{Rayment-hc. d. 3. (March 2012)
  3. [http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_heroes/hist_hero_foley.html Sir Dominic Corrigan Statue 1869 – HISTORY HEROES AND VILLAINS John Henry Foley, RA (1818–1874)]. Turtlebunbury.com. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  4. {{London Gazette. (30 January 1866)
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  6. (December 2016)
  7. "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. F,". National Library of Ireland.

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