The Meath Hospital
The Meath Hospital, the oldest of the three hospitals, was founded in 1753. Situated in the'liberty' of the earl of Meath the hospital was opened to serve the sick and poor in the crowded area of the The Liberties.
In the 19th century the Meath Hospital achieved world-wide fame as a result of the revolutionary teaching methods and groundbreaking research carried out by Graves and Stokes, physicians of the hospital.
In more recent times the hospital developed specialised services in the fields of urology, psychiatry, orthopaedics, haematology, endocrinology and nephrology.
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