Edward Allen Martin

bmj;379/oct28_10/o2596/FAF1faEdward Allen Martin (“Eddie”) did postgraduate work at the Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases before returning to Dublin as assistant physician and later as physician with an interest in neurology. He was one of the few neurologists in Dublin, and as well as his main posts he had appointments to St Patrick’s Hospital and to Harcourt St Children’s Hospital.He related that he was advised by his senior physicians, when he expressed an interest in training in neurology, “not to waste your time, they go to all that trouble and no treatment comes of it . . . unless they are dishonest enough to give liver injections, the patients will feel no obligation to pay.” Nevertheless he followed his desire and became an excellent neurologist with an extremely wide range of interests, which one appreciated when one examined his very extensive library. All his books were…
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