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NAME 
DILLON, THEOBALD W.T.
  
IDENTITY STATEMENT  
Reference code: IE UCDA P126
Title:Papers of T.W.T. Dillon (1898–1946)
Dates: 1922–24
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 220 items
  
CONTEXT 
Biographical Statement 

The second son of John Dillon and grandson of John Blake Dillon, Theo Dillon was educated at Belvedere and Mount St Benedict, Gorey and entered University College Dublin with a scholarship in classics and mathematics in 1915. He graduated in medicine in 1921 and was awarded a travelling scholarship in pathology. However he had not been in good health for some time and went instead to continental sanatoria in search of treatment for what was suspected, mistakenly, to be bone tuberculosis. He spent a year at Berk-Plage in the north of France and four years at Leysin, Switzerland, first as a patient and then as assistant to Dr Rollier, a pioneer in the use of heliotherapy. He married Marie Berringer and spent 1928–29 in Vienna studying modern methods in medicine. They moved to Dublin in 1929. In 1932 Dillon was appointed Professor of Therapeutics and Pharmacology in UCD.

  
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE 
Scope and Content 

Mainly letters from Theo Dillon to his father John, 1922–7, from France and Switzerland where he had gone to recuperate and where he married. Letters concern a wide range of topics from the Civil War and British and European post-war politics; medical education, particularly in Dublin; the nature and progress of his own treatment; his marriage and career prospects; and family matters. Also includes some letters to Theo from contemporaries; and documents relating to his literary, religious and social interests.

  
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
Access:Available by appointment to holders of a UCDA  reader's ticket.
Language:English
Finding aid:Descriptive catalogue

 


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