Bernard (1666-1698), a learned physician, born in Kerry, Ireland. He studied medicine at Montpellier, and afterwards at Paris. Having travelled through Italy with the two sons of the high-chancellor of Poland, he was introduced at the court of Warsaw, and appointed physician to King John Sobieski. In 1695 he visited England, and read a course of lectures on the animal economy in London and Oxford. He was afterwards elected member of the Royal Society and College of Physicians; and was invited to Cambridge, where he also read public lectures. He was the author of a treatise entitled Evangelium Medici (the Physician's Gospel), in which he endeavoured to explain away the Christian miracles as physical events, upon the principles of natural philosophy. He also wrote a history of Poland in 2 vols.