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Bartholomew Mosse
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Surgeon/Man Midwife. Founder of the Dublin Lying-In (Rotunda) Hospital. Over 300 years old. 18th Century Ireland🇮🇪, history of my hospital & obstetrics, modern medicine, & a pinch of historical fiction.
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A contemporary account of the opening of the Dublin Lying In Hospital is below archive.org/details/book...
The following account of the opening ceremony, published in ' Faulkner's Dublin Journal, "No. 1884 Saturday March 23rd to Tuesday March 26th 1745," fixes for us the exact date of the opening: " On Friday, the 15th instant, was opened an Hospital for poor Lying-in Women, in George's Lane, facing Fade Street: and the same Evening, Judeth Rochford was received into the said Hospital, recommended by the Minister, Church-wardens, and a great number of the principal Parishioners of St. Andrew's Parish, as a very great object of Charity; and on Wednesday last she was safely delivered of a son. "As this Hospital is solely designed for the Relief of such poor and distressed Women, as are not in Cireumstances to provide themselves at such a Time with a convenient place to lie in, or with the common Necessaries for Persons in such a Condition, by which means many poor, though honest and industrious Women perish, and leave their helpless Orphans a Barthen to the Publick (notwithstanding they may at any Hour have the best Assistance in the physical Way that this City affords), therefore the Directors of this Hospital request that the Publick recommend none but such as truly merit the Benefit of this most useful Charity. "The Beds hitherto erected are few; but the Directors in a short Time hope to be able to fill the House which will conveniently contain twenty-four Beds: This Number, they apprehend, will be sufficient to relieve all the poor Objeets, in such a Way in this City. Every Woman is to have a warm, decent Bed to herself, and shall be provided with all manner of Necessaries, and the greatest Care imaginable will be taken of her and the new-born Infant, from the Time she is received, until well able to leave the Hospital without Danger; and all without the least Expence to her. "N.B. Those who are inclined to contribute to the Support and Encouragement of this so useful and charitable an Undertaking may send their Subscriptions and Benefactions to the Rev. Dr. Wynne, Dr. Blachford, Sir Arthur Gore, Bart., Thomas Prior, and Ralph Sampson, Esgurs.; or any of the Clergy in and about Dublin. Constant Attendance will be given at the said Hospital by Mr. Bartholomew Mosse, until assisted by the rest of the Gentlemen of the Faculty."
March 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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My vision for the Dublin Lying in Hospital was the relief of the poor & the teaching of Midwifery. The 1st hospital was down a lane opposite Fade St. (the New Booth Theatre in a past life). It was sorely needed- the other 3 Dublin hospitals did not admit lying-in women.
Delapidated lookong three storey Georgian semi detached buildings. Sepia toned etching. Map of Dublins George’s St. there is a pin at 59 South Great Georges St
March 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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I blush at the extravagant praise on the first centenary of my Hospital:
" Men will labour diligently for their own advancement, either directly or indirectly, and will even contribute liberally to the relief of distress; but how seldom do we see an individual devoting his time, his talents, bodily and mental labour, and his wealth, to the sole purpose of raising up an asylum for the relief of suffering, and, at the same time, for the improvement of his own profession, without the prospect—nay, we may say, without the possibility-of an adequate reward? And yet this was what was done, simply and without display, and, as will appear by the following memoir, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, by the founder and builder of the Lying-in Hospital in this city."
March 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM