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'''Barry Edward O'Meara ''' (1786–1836) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] [[surgery|surgeon]] and founding member of the [[Reform Club]], who accompanied [[Napoleon]] to [[St. Helena]] and became his physician, having been surgeon on board the [[HMS Bellerophon (1786)|Bellerophon]] when the emperor surrendered himself. He is remembered as the author of ''Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena'' (1822) a book which charged Sir [[Hudson Lowe]] with mistreating the former emperor and created no small sensation on its appearance. Less known are his secret letters he sent clandestinely from St. Helena to a clerk at the Admiralty in London. These letters shed a unique light on Napoleon's state of mind as a captive and the causes of his complaints against Sir [[Hudson Lowe]] and the British government.
O'Meara was also the physician to have performed the very first medical operation on Napoleon: by extracting a wisdom tooth in Fall 1817.<ref> See the story of [http://www.inside-longwood.com/inside-longwood-articles-tooth.html ''Napoleon's Tooth'']</ref>
==See also==
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For 'Fall' read 'Autumn'
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