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Power, John Hatch (1806-1863) received his medical license from the RCSI in 1831. In 1847 he was appointed Surgeon to Jervis Street Hospital. Power became a Fellow of the RCSI in 1844 and three years later he was elected a member of the Council. His work on Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body Descriptive and Surgical with a descriptive Anatomy of the Heart. went to three editions and the edition of 1863 published in Philadelphia was “authorized and adopted by the Surgeon-General of the United States Army for use in field and general hospitals,” during the American Civil War. Of the papers he published, the best was On the Structure of the Optic Nerve in Relation to Reversed Retinal Vision. Power died from typhus fever on 14th May 1863 and is buried in the Groves family tomb in the graveyard of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

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