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Eades, Richard (1809 - 1867)

FRCS (Ir)

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Physician

Born: 15 August 1809 Dublin, Ireland. Died: 12 October 1867 Windsor, Victoria, Australia.

Richard Eades ran a private medical practice in Adelaide from 1849 to 1852 and in Melbourne from 1852 to 1867. He was also physician to the Melbourne Hospital (1859-66), lectured on materia medica in the Government Analytical Laboratory and began an extra-mural course for medical students, which hastened the establishment of the University of Melbourne Medical School. After completing his studies in his home country of England, Eade went to Paris to study botany and chemistry and the migrated to Australia in 1848.

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Chronology
1832 Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at Trinity College Dublin
1834 - Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London
1836 Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at Trinity College Dublin
1848 Migrated to South Australia
1849 - 1852 Private practice in South Australia
c. 1853 - Private practice in Melbourne
1855 Founder of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria
1856 - 1867 Official visitor to the Lunatic Asylum
1859 - 1866 Physician to the Melbourne Hospital
1860 - 1861 Member of the Council of the Royal Society of Victoria
1862 - 1867 First Lecturer in Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Melbourne
1865 - Health Officer for Melbourne
1884 - Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (FRCS)

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Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P002334. [ Details ]

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Created: 30 June 1997
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