Sir Richard Quain (October 30, 1816 - March 13, 1898), Irish physician, was born at Mallow-on-the-Blackwater, Co. Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Cork. He received his early education at Cloyne, and was then apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary in Limerick. There is also a village named Cloyne in Ontario, Canada. This article is about the town in the Republic of Ireland Cloyne Limerick (pronounced /ˈlɪmrɪk/ Luimneach in Irish) is a city and the county seat of County Limerick in the Province of Munster In 1837 he entered University College, London, where he graduated with high honors as MB. University College London ( UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London in 1840, and as M. D. (gold medal) in 1842. Six years later he was chosen to be an assistant-physician to the Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, and with that institution he retained his connection until his death, first as full (1855) and subsequently as consulting physician (1875). The Royal Brompton Hospital, commonly known as The Brompton, is a specialist Heart and Lung Hospital in Brompton, London

He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1851, and filled almost every post of honor it could offer except the presidency, in the contest for which he was beaten by Sir Andrew Clark in 1888. The Royal College of Physicians of London was the first medical institution in England to receive a Royal Charter He became physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1890, and was created a baronet in the following year. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland He died in London on the 13th of March 1898.

Quain, who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1871, was the author of several memoirs, dealing for the most part with disorders of the heart, but his name will be best remembered by the Dictionary of Medicine, the preparation of which occupied him from 1875 to 1882 (2nd edition, 1894; 3rd, 1902). The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 He sat on the Royal Commission on Rinderpest (cattle plague) in 1865. Rinderpest is an infectious viral Disease of Cattle, domestic buffalo, and some Species of Wildlife. He was a cousin of Jones Quain (1796-1865), the author of Quamns Elements of Anatomy, and of Richard Quain (1800-1887), who was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1868, and left to University College, London, funds with which the Quain professorships of botany, English language and literature, law, and physics were endowed. Jones Quain (1796 - 1865 was an anatomist born at Mallow, Ireland Richard Quain (1800-87 was an English anatomist and surgeon, born at Fermoy, Ireland, a brother of Jones Quain. The Royal College of Surgeons of England is an independent Professional body committed to promoting and advancing the highest standards of surgical care Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College London, England A half-brother of the last two, Sir John Richard Quain (1816-1876), was appointed a judge of the Queens Bench in 1871.

Terms

• Quain's fatty heart — Fatty degeneration of the muscle fibers of the heart.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)

References

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