About Edmund O'Meara
Lived 1614 – 1681 (aged 66–67). Edmund O'Meara was a physician, surgeon and physiologist.
Edmund O'Meara (, also known as Edmund Meara; 1614–1681) was an Irish physiologist and one of the last prominent champions of the medical ideas of Galen. Son of Dermod O'Meara who was a physician, poet and author. O'Meara is remembered today for his criticism of vivisection, stating that the agony suffered by lab animals distorted the research results, using this as a basis to reject William Harvey's ideas about the circulatory system and defend the earlier theories of Galen.
O'Meara wrote an epitaph for Malachy Ó Caollaidhe, but was unable to locate his grave.
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Irish doctor
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Edmund O'Meara was born in 1614.
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Edmund O'Meara died in 1681.
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Edmund O'Meara was a physician, surgeon and physiologist.
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