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About J. B. Lyons
- John Benignus Lyons (22 July 1922 – 25 October 2007), better known as J.
- B.
- Lyons and widely known as Jack Lyons, was an Irish physician, medical historian, writer, and professor of medical history.
- He was described as "one of the foremost Irish medical writers of the twentieth century".Born in Kilkelly, County Mayo, his father was a dispensary doctor.
- His first school was the Kilkelly National School, followed by Castleknock College.
- He went on to study medicine at University College Dublin.
- He first worked in Dublin hospitals, including Mater Hospital and the County Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo, and then moved to England.
- He achieved the Doctor of Medicine (at the National University of Ireland) and in 1949 he was made a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He then left to become a ship's doctor on a cargo liner sailing to Japan and South America.
- On his return to land, Lyons settled in Manchester, England, where he met, and in 1950 married, a Welsh nurse, Muriel Jones.
- In 1955, they and their three children, David, Kate and Jane, moved to Dalkey, just outside Dublin, and Lyons became the consultant physician at St.
- Michael's Hospital in Dún Laoghaire and then in 1959 became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
- In 1959, he became consultant physician at Mercer's Hospital, Dublin. Lyons achieved a WHO fellowship to visit leading neurological centres in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco.
- He then wrote his first book, A Primer of Neurology, which was published in 1974.
- Soon after, he began to write fictional works using the pseudonym Michael Fitzwilliam, which were set in hospitals.
- He then wrote more biographies and medical history books.
- In 1975 he was appointed Professor of the History of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His biographies included studies of Oliver St.
- John Gogarty (published in 1976 and 1980), a biography of Tom Kettle (1983) and of the Irish-African explorer Surgeon-Major Parke (1994).
- Lyons wrote much about Irish medical history and contributed chapters to other books, including Diseases in Dubliners: Tokens of Disaffection (1981) Selected works by J.B.
- Lyons: The citizen surgeon: a biography of Sir Victor Horsley 1857-1916 (London: Peter Dawnay, 1966) James Joyce and medicine (Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1973) A primer of neurology (London: Butterworths, 1974) Brief lives of Irish doctors (Dublin: Blackwater, 1978) Oliver St.
- John Gogarty : the man of many talents : a biography (Dublin: Blackwater, 1980) The enigma of Tom Kettle: Irish patriot, essayist, poet, British soldier, 1880-1916 (Dublin: Glendale Press, 1983) An assembly of Irish surgeons: lives of presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in the 20th century (Dublin: Glendale Press & Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1984) The irresistible rise of the R.C.S.I.
- / by J.B.
- Lyons, H.
- O’Flanagan and W.A.L.
- MacGowan.
- (Dublin: 1984) Thrust syphilis down to hell and other rejoyceana : studies in the border-lands of literature and medicine (Dublin: Glendale, 1988) The quality of Mercer’s : the story of Mercer’s Hospital, 1734-1991 (Dublin: Glendale, 1991) What did I die of? : the deaths of Parnell, Wilde, Synge, and other literary pathologies (Dublin : Lilliput Press, 1991) Surgeon-Major Parke’s African journey 1887-89 (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1994) A pride of professors : the professors of medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1813 - 1985 (Dublin: A & A.
- Farmar, 1999) 2000 years of Irish medicine (Dublin: 1999)In 2002 The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland published Borderlands: essays on literature and medicine in honour of J.
- B.
- Lyons / edited by Davis Coakley and Mary O’Doherty (Dublin: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2002).
- J.
- B.
- Lyons died, aged 85, in 2007.
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