Life
fl.1610; [Dermod or Dermoitius; also Meara ODNB]; ed. Oxford, physician in Ireland; published a Latin poem on Earl of Ormonde (1615); and treatise on hereditary diseases (1619); living in Oxford in 1620. RR ODNB DIW
References
Dictionary of National Biography: a son, Edmund Meara or O’Meara (d.1680), MD Rheims, 1636; hon. FRCP, 1664; defended in his Examen (1665) against Thomas Willis and was attacked by Richard Lower (qqv).
Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies, Vol.II [of 2] (London & Dublin 1821) |
| A PHYSICIAN and poet, was born towards the close of the sixteenth century, at Ormond, in the county of Tipperary, and educated at Oxford, where he took his medical degrees, and retired to his native country, where he speedily attained the highest eminence in his profession. He was living in 1620, but the time of his decease is not specified in our authorities. He wrote an heroic poem in Latin, on the Earl of Ormond and Ossory, and also some medical treatises. (p.459.) |
| See Ryan, op. cit. (1821) - via index or as attached. |
Notes
Dermot O’Meara, Pathologia Haereditaria Generalis (1619), the earliest scientific book printed in Ireland, based on Galen and Hippocrates. See W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (1984).
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