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GRAVES, Robert James (1796 – 1853)

GRAVES, Robert James (1796 – 1853)

1796 – 1853

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · Own work · CC BY-SA 4.0

1835 CE

#3815

Palpitation of the heart with enlargement of the thyroid gland.

This is considered the first accurate account of exophthalmic goitre, later known as “Parry’s disease”, “Graves’s disease”, and “Basedow’s disease”. An interesting…

1843 CE

#2218

A system of clinical medicine.

Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine and one of the most important figures in Irish medicine at the middle of the 19th century. Second edition of the book (as Clinical lectures on the practic…