A Hero Of Donegal. Dr. William Smyth (1902)
Book ID: 69224
Price: €125.00
A Hero Of Donegal. Dr. William Smyth. London: Isbister & Co., 1902. First Edition. Pp 145, [6]. Green cloth boards lettered in black. Covers light worn and dusty, contents page in good condition. Illustrated with eight plates.
A memoir of Dr. William Smyth (1859 – 1901) of Burtonport, Co Donegal.
In 1882 Dr Smyth he was appointed to the Rosses district including Gweedore and the Islands where he had care of 12,000 patients. He was famous for his selfless devotion – he once vaccinated 700 against smallpox in two weeks.
In October 1901 there was an outbreak of typhus on Arranmore. Nobody would agree to row the patients to the mainland en route to Glenties hospital and aided by Dr. McCarthy he rowed them himself. A heroic act which resulted in his own death from typhus just one month later.
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