Edward Hallaran Bennett

Life
1837-1907; b. Cork; ed. TCD, BA 1859, MD 1864; surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital; Prof. of Surgery, TCD, 1873-1906; President of Pathological Soc., 1880, and Royal College of Surgeons, 1884-86; discovered ‘Bennett’s fracture’, 1880; used Lister’s methods of disinfection. ODNB DIH

 

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