10,000 and counting …
The Dun's Library e-cataloguing project hit an important milestone today with the cataloguing of the 10,000th item! This means that we are about one third of the way though the library collections. The pace of cataloguing has noticeably increased in the last two months with the appointment of a full-time intern to assist with the project, and they had the honour of cataloguing the 10,000th item
Acute Dilation of the Stomach by William Doolin is a pamphlet reprinted from The British Journal of Surgery. It is part of the Kirkpatrick Pamphlet Collection, which contains over 3,000 items on medical, historical, religious, local history and miscellaneous subjects.
Thomas Percy Claude Kirkpatrick (1869-1954) was a medic, bibliophile and medical historian; he worked at Dr Steevens' Hospital and the Rotunda, and was also Registrar of this College for over 40 years. His pamphlet collection is a hugely valuable and varied resource, and covers an eclectic range of subjects.
William Doolin (1887-1962) was a contemporary and friend of Kirkpatrick. Doolin graduated from UCD in 1910, he worked at St. Vincent's and Temple Street hospitals, and was heavily involved with the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Like Kirkpatrick he was also interested in the history of medicine, particularly the French School of Medicine. He published Wayfarers in Medicine in 1947 which contains biographies of many eminent medics. For many years he was editor of the Irish Journal of Medical Science.