The three key Revivalists—Yeats, Gregory, and Synge—all took different approaches to traditional medicine in their works. Of the three, Yeats’s approach to medicine is the most consciously metaphorical, as he explores Ireland’s revival back to health. Gregory, on the other hand, is more interested in the literal practice of herbal medicine, and she devoted considerable time both to practitioners and to their remedies. Synge is a special case. He is much more interested in anti-health, and this is evident in his play The Well of the Saints, which links the powers of the healing well with the ubiquitous powers of utilitarian and capitalist modernity in order to question the latter. Nevertheless, despite Synge’s familiarity with and closeness to illness in both his fiction and personal life, there is no doubt that he still acknowledges traditional medicine and its place in national life, albeit in a troubling manner. Traditional medicine is both a topos in Revival-era work and a metaphor for writing at a critical point in the history of modern Ireland.