Sir William Robert Wills Wilde

1815 – 1876

Irish oto-ophthalmologic surgeon and the author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland. Father of Oscar Wilde.

• A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities of stone, earthen and vegetable materials in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy
• Irish Popular Superstitions
• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy
• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold in the Museum of the ..
• An essay on the malformations and congenital diseases of the organs of sight
• Austria, its literary, scientific, and medical institutions
• Contributions to aural surgery
• Lough Corrib
• Medical Epidemics
• Medico-legal observations upon infantile leucorrhoea
• Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus and Greece
• Observations on the history of the cure of popliteal aneurism by compression