A Portrait of Irish Medicine. An Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland. Photographs by David Davison. Dublin: Ward Press, 1984. First Edition. Pp xvi, 306. Folio. Buff cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Top-edge a little dusty otherwise a nice bright copy.

Published for the Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Beginning in legendary times it moves on through the Brehon Laws and the post-Patrician era of monastic medicine, to the turbulent 17th and 18th centuries which saw the first glimmerings of organised medicine.