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Son of Dermod O'Meara who was a physician, poet and author.
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Edmund O'Meara
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O'Meara wrote an epitaph for Malachy Ó Caollaidhe, but was unable to locate his grave.
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Edmund is remembered today for his criticism of vivisection, stating that the agony suffered by animals distorted the research results, using this as a basis to reject William Harvey's ideas about the circulatory system and defend the earlier theories of Galen.
