Medical Press and Circular

Its masthead featured a Latin language version of the Cicero motto Salus Populi Suprema Lex ("the health of the people shall be the supreme law").

Claiming to be the first publication of its kind in Ireland, its first issue contained veiled criticism of The Lancet's Erinensis column, pseudonymously written by an Irish doctor.

[2] The Press contained medical and scientific articles, as well as letters, news, and professional notices.

[3] On 12 March 1845, Francis Rynd published his article on his invention of the modern hypodermic needle in the Dublin Medical Press.

[2] The Press became known for its opposition to pseudoscience and in 1865 published a list of 18 Irish and British newspapers which had agreed to refuse advertising of quackery.