| Description | Marble bust of Richard Carmichael
Richard Carmichael's surgical education began in RCSI and the House of Industry Hospital. In 1795 he passed as a Surgeon’s Mate and shortly afterwards became attached to the Wexford Militia. In 1803 he received his licentiateship from RCSI and settled into practice in Cumberland Street. He was elected Surgeon to St Georges Hospital and Dispencary and it was here that he began his study of cancer. In 1813 he was elected President of RCSI and again in 1826 and 1845. Carmichael was an ardent medical reformer and for ten years he presided over the Medical Association of Ireland. He was the founder of the Medical Benevolent Society, and in 1835 was elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of France, the first Irishman to receive this honour. On his death he bequeathed money to the Richmond Hospital School, where he had taught Anatomy and Physiology. The name of the school was soon after changed to the Carmichael School of Medicine. |