Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan (1800–1840) was a British physician and author,

Life The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that Ryan was probably born in Ireland. His medical training took place in Dublin and Edinburgh. He then went into practice in Kilkenny for some years, moving to London in 1829. He died in London on 11 December 1840, leaving a young family. His later publications included The Philosophy of Marriage in its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs and the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdom, 1837; this formed part of a course of obstetric lectures delivered at the North London School of Medicine. Twelve editions in all, the last in 1867, were issued. It was followed in 1839 by Prostitution in London, with a Comparative View of that of Paris and New York … with an Account of the Nature and Treatment of the various Diseases.

Ryan also published The Medico-Chirurgical Pharmacopœia, 1837, 2nd ed. 1839; and Thomas Denman's Obstetrician's Vade-Mecum, edited and augmented, 1836. He translated and added to Le Nouveau Formulaire pratique des Hôpitaux by Henri Milne-Edwards and Pierre Vavasseur.