David Barry (physician)

David Barry (physician)

Sir David Barry, M.D., F.R.S. (1780–1835), was an Irish physician and physiologist.

Barry was born in county Roscommon, Ireland, 12 March 1780; appointed assistant surgeon in the army, 1806; present as surgeon, 58th foot, at the Battle of Salamanca; and afterwards held several Peninsular appointments. In 1822–6 he studied physiology and medicine at Paris, and there read several original papers before the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine on the influence of atmospheric pressure on various functions of the body. The experiments on which these were based were repeated before Cuvier, Duméril, Laennec, Cruvelhier, and other eminent men of science, and much commended. These researches were published in London in 1826 under the title given below, and brought Barry into much repute. In 1828–9 he acted as English member with a commission of French doctors which visited Gibraltar to report on the causes of an epidemic of yellow fever there in 1828. In 1831 he was appointed on a commission to report on the cholera, and visited Russia, being knighted on his return. Among other commissions on which he acted was one on the medical charities of Ireland.

He died suddenly on 4 November 1835 of aneurism.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain"Barry, David (1780-1835)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 


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