Bram Stoker (1847-1912) came from an irish medical family whose influence is not hard in his most famous work, Dracula, which sadly did not bring him the fame and fortune which his older brother William Thornley achieved. The latter was not only President of the Irish College of Surgeons and knighted, but held appointments at the two major Dublin asylums - the Richmond Hospital and St Patrick's. He was even a member of the Medico-Psychological Society for a while, and thus was well-placed to advise on the activities and thought-processes of the doctors in Dracula.
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