Francis Rynd
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Francis Rynd was an Irish medical doctor known for inventing the hypodermic needle used in syringes in 1844, which also led to the first recorded injection. It was one of the major inventions of drug
Francis Rynd. Photograph. Wellcome V0028785
Illustration of Rynd's hypodermic needle shown at F of Fig. 1
Meath Hospital
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The Meath Hospital was a general hospital in the Earl of Meath's Liberty in Dublin, Ireland. It was absorbed into the Tallaght Hospital in June 1998.
Francis Rynd
…at Trinity College Dublin, where he was reputed to be a "wayward" student, known for his busy social life and love of fox hunting. Rynd worked at the Meath Hospital in Dublin. At the Meath Hospital he trained under surgeon Sir Philip Crampton. Rynd became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1830…
Meath Hospital, now a respite home
A photograph of nurses in the Meath Hospital, Dublin in 1872.