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...Dublin in 1864, the world caved in on a Victorian doctor. A leading light in the Irish medical profession, he had been accused before a crowded courtroom of criminally attacking one of his patients, a young woman. The woman was clearly of a durable sort, for she admitted that she had returned to the doctor's office again & again. She also said that in "vengeance" she had circulated scurrilous pamphlets about him, put garlic in the soap-tray of his consulting room. The jury deliberated, found in her favor, assessed the net damage to her reputation and virtue...
...case rocked Ireland. It practically ended the career of the Victorian doctor, whose name was William Wilde. Then nearing 50, he was talented, versatile and unquestionably eccentric. His professional standing in Dublin and elsewhere was of the highest; he had, in fact, been knighted only a few months before. The Wildes lived in a fine house on fashionable Merrion Square, Dublin. They had three children: a daughter, Isola, 7; a son, Willie, 12; and another son, 10, named Oscar...
...father, or because he was, as an outraged Victorian put it, a "pithecoid person of extraordinary sensuality." Victorian Doctor attempts to give him his due as a medical man and to show the sort of person he actually was, scandal aside. T. G. Wilson, himself a prominent Dublin doctor, tells the story well, in reasonably dispassionate if sometimes long-winded detail...
...declares, was a great doctor, although his detractors have put him down as a mere provincial medico. He was certainly no saint, and his quick temper and generally unwashed appearance made him act and look like even less of one. "Why are Dr. Wilde's nails black?" asked Dublin wags. "Because he scratches himself." But his Aural Surgery (1853) was the "first textbook of importance" on the subject. He was Ireland's first Surgeon Oculist in Ordinary to the Queen. The eye-&-ear hospital he established in Dublin in 1844 was for years the only...
...Catholic, Mohammedan, Buddhist or Labor. All my life I've been in the struggle to see things improved, which is what everyone else is trying to do too, isn't it?" His latest play, Red Roses for Me, produced in suburban London in February, is about the Dublin transport strike of 1913. Said the Daily Express: "Glorious...