Journal of Medical Biography > Volume 17, Number 3 > Pp. 144-148

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Neurologists

Jonathan Osborne (1794–1864) MD FRCPI: a crypto-neurologist

Caoimhghín S Breathnach  

Correspondence: CS Breathnach, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (email: caoimhghin.breathnac{at}ucd.ie)

Jonathan Osborne was born in Dublin and educated in Trinity College Dublin, where he became Professor of Materia Medica. As physician to Sir Patrick Dun's and Mercer Hospitals he reported extensively on those patients who came under his care. In his native city he is remembered for the instruments he devised, for his studies on dropsies (particularly albuminuric nephritis), and for his therapeutic approach to epilepsy and neuralgia. It is his thorough analysis of a patient with conduction aphasia in 1833, however, which has stood the test of time.

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