MANSELL (Thomas Lukis, of Guernsey, Physician, graduate of Trinity College Dublin, 1831, M.D. Edinburgh and M.R.C.S.E. 1832)

Group of 5 certificates of his attendance at medical lectures in Dublin, issued by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Mercer's Hospital, Dr Steevens's Hospital or the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary (2), each with an attractive engraving of the R.C.S.I. Arms or the hospital in question, with the signatures of many famous physicians and surgeons responsible for the great changes then in progress, including Whitley Stokes  (associated with the United Irishmen in the 1790s), and Abraham Colles (of 'Colles' fracture'), many of whom were President of the R.C.S.I., (some more than once), beginning with the examination of 'Thomas Lucas Mansell' in "the Latin and Greek Classics" (R.C.S.I., 22nd August 1826), his having attended 'the Medical and Surgical Practice' and two courses of 'Clinical Lectures' at Mercer's Hospital (1st June 1828), the 'Practice of Surgery as a Pupil' at Dr Steevens's Hospital (six months from November 1828), and the 'practice & Clinical Lectures' (Meath Hospital, November 1829 - May 1830 and November 1830 - May 1831), 5 separate sides tall folio, Dublin, 1826 - some edges defective in the blank wide margins

Mansell is apparently the son of Admiral Sir Thomas Mansell, (1777-1858), who married Catherine Lukis in 1806.
Signatures include: William Auchinleck (Surgeon to Mercer's Hospital); Richard Carmichael (1779-1849, medical education reformer); Abraham Colles(1773-1843, Professor of Surgery, R.C.S.I.); Maurice Colles (the elder, who performed plastic surgery to give a new nose at Meath Hospital); Sir Philip Crampton (1777-1858, Anatomist, Surgeon-General); James Cusack(Resident Surgeon, Dr. Steevens's); William Daniel (Surgeon, Mercer's); (Robert James Graves (1796-1853, F.R.S., King's Professor, School of Physic); Thomas Hewson (1783-1831, Professor of Surgery and Pharmacy, Meath Hospital; James Henthorn (1744-1832, Secretary, R.C.S.I.); Charles Lendrick (Mercer's, Lecturer on the Cholera of 1832); Francis L'Estrange (1756-1836, Obstetrician, President, R.C.S.I., 1796), Gerard Macklin (of Mercer's, State Surgeon); Rawdon McNamara (the elder, d. 1836), Prof. of Materia Medica and Medical Botany, R.C.S.I); Robert Moore Peile (d. 1849); William Henry Porter (1791-1861, Meath Hospital); Cusack Roney(d. 1849, Meath Hospital); Alexander Read (c. 1786-1870, Surgeon, Mercer's Hospital); Whitley Stokes (1763-1845, Regius Prof. of Physic, T.C.D.); Samuel  Wilmot (1772-1848, Prof. of Surgery).
Mansell was apprenticed 5 years to Robert Harrison,  Prof. of Anatomy, (1796-1858) R.C.S.I., whose name has been written at the foot of the first certificate.
See Sir C.A. Cameron, History of the R.C.S.I., and of the Irish Schools of Medicine (1886), and T.P.C. Kirkpatrick, History of Dr. Steevens' Hospital, (1920).

Item Date:  1831

Stock No:  56075