Edmund O'Meara

Edmund O'Meara (1614-1681) Irish physiologist and one of the last prominent champions of the medical ideas of Galen. Son of Dermod O'Meara who was a physician, poet and author. Edmund is remembered today for his criticism of vivisection, stating that the agony suffered by animals distorted the research results, using this as a basis to reject William Harvey's ideas about the circulatory system and defend the earlier theories of Galen.

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