Robert Graves: The Golden Years of Irish Medicine (Eponymists in medicine series)

Name: Robert Graves: The Golden Years of Irish Medicine (Eponymists in medicine series)
Brand: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
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By Selwyn Taylor

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-- "This is the story of an Irish physician whose name is still a household word among doctors; he is rightly remembered, but for the wrong reasons. The complaint to which his name is applied by English speaking doctors, Graves' disease, was first described ten years earlier by another physician, Caleb Hillier Parry of Bath. Despite all this it is very proper to remember Robert James Graves for he was a brilliant doctor who revolutionised the medical practice of his day and introduced a method of teaching students at the bedside which still continues to be the mainstay of medical education. Graves was an outstanding scholar all his life and whatever subject he touched, biology, anatomy, chemistry and epidemiology, not to mention clinical medicine, he added distinction to it. He had a flair for foreign languages and was fluent in French, German and Italian. He was exceedingly well read and was a great traveller in Europe, always anxious to keep abreast of developments in other countries. The period in which he lived, the first half of the 19th century, was one of great biological awareness and he brought a keen critical mind to the advances then being made. He practised in Dublin when that city was the medical Mecca of the world. Little wonder that those times are still referred to as the golden years of Irish medicine." (Selwyn Taylor, Foreword) -- Robert James Graves was also an uncredited inventor of the second-hand on watches. Following his death, a Dublin watchmaking company began selling watches with second hands, a concept Graves had come up with for personal use but didn't patent.

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Number of Pages:: 153
Release Date:: 1989-10-31
Publication Date:: 1989-10-31
Publisher:: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0905958985

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