Robert Adams (surgeon)

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Robert Adams (born around 1791 in Dublin ; † January 13 or January 16, 1875 there ) was an Irish surgeon and cardiologist.

Life

Robert Adams was born the son of a lawyer. Little is known about his early life. Robert Adams was married twice. His grave is in his hometown at Mount Jerome Cemetery .

education and profession

In February 1810 he began his medical training with an apprenticeship with Dr. William Hartigan, the leading surgeon in Dublin, after whose death he was able to receive further training in 1813 with the General Physician of the English Army in Ireland, George Stewart. General education took place at Trinity College in Dublin, which he graduated in 1814 ( BA ). He acquired further academic degrees at a later date ( MA 1832, MB, MD 1842, MS 1861). In order to deepen his surgical knowledge, he spent some time on the mainland in surgical clinics.

In 1815 he was accepted as a licentiate and in 1818 as a fellow in the Irish College of Surgeons; 1828 followed by membership in the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Adams worked as a surgeon at Jervis Street Hospital and Richmond Hospital (1835–1873) in Dublin. With Kirby and Read he founded the Peter Street School of Medicine , from which he separated again. Together with R. Carmichael and E. Mac Dowel, he built the Richmond School of Medicine (later called Carmichael School ), where he also held surgical lectures as a university professor. When Queen Victoria was appointed Regius Professorship in 1868 , Adams became the first Regius Professor of Surgery at Trinity College, Dublin.

Services

Adams was an excellent surgeon and anatomist , having conducted most of his anatomical studies under the direction of Abraham Colles . Adams' fame was due primarily to the successful monograph A Treatise on Rheumatic Gout, or Chronic Rheumatic arthritis of all the joints (chronic rheumatoid arthritis ). For a long time, this work was considered the classic description of this clinical picture (Adams himself suffered from it).

In addition to articles on abnormal joints , the articles on heart disease published in the Dublin Hospital Reports and Communications in Medicine and Surgery (1827), a 100-page monograph, deserve special attention. He not only described the symptoms and pathology of the heart block, but also dealt with heart failure due to pericardial adhesions, cardiac hypertrophy , coronary vascular sclerosis , arrhythmias in heart valve diseases and angina pectoris .

Adams was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland three times, and in 1861 he was admitted as the Queen's Doctor in Ireland and Professor of Surgery at Dublin University. He has also been a member of a number of British and foreign medical societies.

The Adams-Stokes syndrome ( Morgagni- Adams-Stokes syndrome) is named after him and William Stokes .

Works

  • Cases of diseases of the heart accompanied with pathological observations . Dublin Hosp Rep 4 (1827) 353
  • A Treatise on Rheumatic Gout, or Chronic Rheumatic Arthritis of all the Joints . London 1857

literature

  • Adams . In: Frederic Boase: Modern English Biography. Containing many thousand concise Memoirs of Persons who have died during the years 1851-1900 . Netherton and Worth, Truro 1892–1921, (Also reprinted: Thoemmes, Bristol 2000, ISBN 1-85506-863-X ).
  • Robert Adams: Cases of diseases of the heart, accompanied by pathological observations . In: Medical classics 3, 1939, ZDB -ID 604496-7 , pp. 633-696, (original edition in: Dublin Hospital reports 4, 1827, pp. 353-453).
  • Robert Adams (1791-1875). Morgagni-Adams-Stokes Syndrome . In: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 206, 1968, ISSN  0098-7484 , pp. 639-640.
  • Charles A. Cameron: History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish Schools of Medicine. Including numerous biographical Sketches, also a medical bibliography . Fannin & Company, Dublin 1886.
  • J. Duffy Hancock: The Irish school of medicine . In: Annals of medical history . 2nd Series, 2, 1930, pp. 196f., Online .
  • James B. Herrick: Robert Adams, surgeon and his contributions to cardiology . In: Annals of medical history . 3rd Series, 1, 1939, pp. 45f.
  • Saul Jarcho: Arrhythmia in Disease of the Heart Valves (Adams, 1827) . In: The American Journal of Cardiology 21, 1968, 6, ISSN  0002-9149 , pp. 901-906.
  • Eberhard J. Wormer: Syndromes of cardiology and their creators . Medikon, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-923866-28-3 , ( Dictionaries of Cardiology ), pp. 175-188.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Surgery Department ( Memento December 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on the Trinity College website at the University of Dublin; Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Thomas Percy Claude Kirkpatrick () History of the medical teaching in Trinity college, Dublin and of the School of physic in Ireland online. (page 21 of 24)

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personal data
SURNAME Adams, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1875
Place of death Dublin