Robert James Graves

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Robert James Graves (born March 27, 1797 in Dublin , † March 20, 1853 ibid) was an Irish doctor .

He was friends with William Stokes , with whom he also published the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science" from 1836 to 1842.

A statue was erected for him in Dublin in 1878.

Innovations in medicine

He is considered to be the first to describe autoimmune thyroid disease type 3, which is known in German-speaking countries as Graves 'disease and in English-speaking countries as Graves' disease because he was the first to recognize the combination of exophthalmos and enlarged thyroid. However, Graves considered the heart to be the cause of the goiter . He assumed that palpitations caused the thyroid to enlarge. - He had dealt intensively with the heart sounds and noticed a patient whose first heart sound he could hear from a distance of over a meter without a stethoscope .

The form in which the exophthalmos was noticeable at the time shows a traditional quote from Graves: "The eyeballs were visibly enlarged to such an extent that the eyelids could no longer be closed while sleeping. When the eyes were open, they were white of the eye visible in the width of several lines around the cornea . "

He also described angioneurotic edema , scleroderma and erythromelalgia .

In 1850 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c www.whonamedit.com: Robert James Graves; last viewed on March 23, 2008 ( memento of March 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Graves, Robert James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1853
Place of death Dublin