Robert James Graves was an Anglo-Irish physician and surgeon of Dublin, born in 1796, whose name is attached to Graves' disease. He studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin, took his degree in 1818 and then spent about three years observing medical schools across Europe before returning to Dublin in 1821. There he practised at the Meath Hospital and helped found the Park Street School of Medicine, bringing bedside teaching in which students examined patients themselves. He lectured in English rather than Latin, was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1849, and co-founded the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. His Clinical Lectures of 1843 made his name known across Europe. He died in 1853.
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was an Anglo-Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name
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27 March 1796
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20 March 1853)
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was an Anglo-Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name
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He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London
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