biography
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Graves, Robert James
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| male
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| lived:
| (1796–1853)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, but took his medical degree in 1818 from Dublin. After three years' travel in Europe, he returned to Dublin and was appointed physician to the Meath Hospital. There he reorganized medical teaching along the lines advocated in France, with emphasis on physical examination, systematic note-taking, and autopsies. He was an excellent diagnostician, best remembered today for his description of a form of hyperthyroidism (Graves' disease). His Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine (1843) won him an international reputation. |
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