History of Medicine Section, Wednesday 19th September 2012

19/09/2012 in Frederick House, South Frederick Street, Dublin 2

Bram Stoker’s Medical Family – Introducing 12 Medical Stokers.

Presented by Mr. Douglas Appleyard, a distant relative of Bram Stoker.

2012 is the centenary of the death of Bram Stoker the creator of Dracula. Douglas Appleyard, a distant relative of Bram Stokers will give am illustrated talk on Bram Stoker’s medical family including his brother, Sir William Thornley Stoker who was a former president of RCSI and who died in the same yer as his brother. Did his medical background influence Stoker’s internationally recognised writings?