"O'Connors in Medicine Members of the O'Connor clans, especialy Kerry, have excelled in the field of medicine, amongst them being the seventeenth century Dr Bernard O'Connor . Born in Kerry around 1666, Dr Bernard O'Connor studied in the universities of Montpelier, Paris and Rheims, where he obtained his doctorate. he cared for the Polish High Chancellor's tow sons en route for Poland, via Italy where he cured the Earl of Dartmouth. After much further travel, he arrived in Warsaw where he was received by King John Sobieski. In 1694, he was appointed the King's physician and he gained in reputation, accurately diagnosing the King's sister, the Duchess of Bedzeoil's abscess on her liver, which her own doctor treated as ague, as a conswquence of which she died. From Warsaw, he accompanied as physician, Teresa Cunigunda, espoused to the Elector of Bavaria by proxy in 1694. The following year he reached London, and Oxford where he delivered lectures on anatomy and physiology and published medical dissertations. He was also the first person to dissect an elephant. Tn 1695, he wa a Fellow of the Royal Society and the following year, made a licentiate of the London College of Physicians. Subsequently , he published a two volume history of Poland. In 1698, Dr. O'Connor died of fever and was buried at "St Giles in the Fields", London. In his Evangelium Medici, he advanced the theory that "generation " could be effected without physical contact , somewhat before his time. Son to William O'Connor who died in 1880 was another Bernard O'Connor of the O'Connor Kerry. He was Physician to the Westminster General Dispensary. This Bernard studied in University College, Cork, and was a medcial doctor a master in surgery. He also studied in Dublin, Edinurgh, London and at the Ecole de Medicine, Bordeaux and wrote works in English and French on surgical and medical subjects. As with the seventeenth century Dr Bernard O'Connor, his first important case was a liver abcess, the diagnosis of which was likewise contested by other practitioners." O'Connor People and Places by Hugh Weir mary in orlando Dingle,Co Kerry Genaealogy Help Page: http://members.aol.com/waterlilys/index.html O'CONNOR MORIARTY FITZGERALD MARTIN West of Mt Brandon, Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry HEFFRON MURPHY Hollymount, Co Mayo