Dominic Corrigan

Dominic John Corrigan ( born December 1, 1802 in Dublin, Ireland, † February 1, 1880 ) was an Irish physician.

Family

He was the second of six children ( three sons and three daughters ) by John Corrigan and Celia O'Conor, which operated outside Dublin's own small farm. His father moved later to the more profitable trading business in agricultural products.

In 1829 he married Joanna Woodlock, the daughter of a Dublin businessman. From this union came six children ( three sons and three daughters ).

Education and work

Corrigan was sent to the Catholic Lay ( St. Patrick's) College of Maynooth, at that time the best education institute in Ireland. He completed his medical studies in 1825 at the Scottish Edinburgh University with a doctorate on the subject from Scrofula. On his return to Dublin, he focused on the practical medical work and teaching. He also worked at the Jervis Street Hospital ( Charitable Infirmary ).

His rhetorical talent soon made him a popular and successful medical teachers. At the same time and in succession he read at the Hargrave School, Digges Street School (1834-1845), Peter Street School and the Richmond Hospital School. From 1831, he was appointed to the advisory physician of the Catholic College of Maynooth ( until 1866 ) and he taught for several years as a visiting professor at the Cork Street ( Fever ) Hospital. 1840 Corrigan worked at the major hospitals of the House of Industry ( Medical Whitworth and Hardwicke Fever Hospital ).

Corrigan was a member of the Surgical Society ( 1832), Member of the Irish College of Physicians ( MRCPI ), co-founder (1836 ) and President of the Pathological Society, President of the Pharmaceutical Society (1875 ), five times President of the Irish College of Physicians ( 1858-1863 ), Vice- President Queen's University, corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Medicine, physician to Queen in Ireland, had honorary doctorates and an extensive private practice.

As a member of Parliament in Dublin (1870-1874) to Corrigan began for liberal interests and pleaded ( as a Catholic ) especially for the public Sunday rest, the re-election failed. His extraordinary scientific career was very encouraged especially through regular publication of his work in The Lancet.

Performance

Already with 30 years Corrigan wrote his famous article on the symptoms of aortic regurgitation ( Corrigan pulse, " water hammer pulse " ) with strikingly strong pulse - a phenomenon that had been observed already by William Cowper 1706 and Raymond Vieussens 1715. In addition to work on heart disease ( aortic regurgitation in 1832, angina pectoris in 1837, cirrhosis of the lungs in 1838, pericarditis 1842), came their results mainly from post- mortem examinations to Corrigan dealt with fevers ( typhus or typhoid fever), the pyloric stenosis, syphilis, apoplexy, bone disease, scarlet fever, Crohn's Bright, the smallpox disease, pemphigus, intestinal ulceration and strangulation, anemia, ovarian or liver tumors, arthritis of the hip joint, tuberculous peritonitis, cholera (1866 ) and the copper poisoning. Corrigan has published over 100 scientific contributions.

As a member of the government he was also involved in public health and sought his medical colleagues to win for the treatment of various fevers. He planned the establishment of homes for the mentally ill, worked as a consultant with the national educational system and advocated the equality of creeds in Ireland.

Corrigan was legend in his lifetime. His statue stands in the hall of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.

Corrigan - eponyms

• Corrigan pulse arterial pulse phenomenon ( pulsus celer at altus: factual rapid pulse, on peripheral arteries most clearly ), the main symptom of aortic regurgitation, the ductus arteriosus apertus or large arteriovenous connections.
• Corrigan Superficial breathing and rapid breathing with feverish.
• Corrigan 's syndrome Congenital aortic regurgitation.
• Corrigan character through absorption of copper dust purple discolored gingival margin in chronic copper poisoning.

Works

• On Permanent Patency of the Mouth of the Aorta, or Inadequacy of the Aortic Valves. Edinburgh Med Surg J 37 (1832) 225
• On Cirrhosis of the Lung. Dubl J Med Sci 13 (1838) 266
• Pericarditis. Dubl J Med Sci 25 (1844) 495, 11 (1851) 199