Robert James Graves

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

He was a friend of William Stokes, with whom he also 1836-1842 issued the " Dublin Journal of Medical Science".

In Dublin, a statue of him was erected in 1878.

Innovations in medicine

He is the first to describe the Autoimmunthyreopathie type 3, which is known as " Graves ' disease " and in the English language as " Graves ' disease" in the German language, because he was the first to realize the combination of exophthalmos and thyroid enlargement. However, Graves saw the heart of the cause of the goiter. He assumed that palpitations cause the enlargement of the thyroid. - He had intensively with the heart sounds busy with him, a patient had noticed the first heart sound he could hear without a stethoscope from a distance of about one meter.

The extent in which struck the exophthalmos at the time shows a handed- Posted by Graves. " His eyeballs were visibly enlarged to such an extent that the eyelids during sleep could not be closed when the eyes were open, the whites was of the eye in a plurality of lines to the width of the cornea visible around. "

In addition, he also described the angioneurotic edema, scleroderma, and erythromelalgia.

Swell

• Physician (19th century)
• Irishman
• Born in 1797
• Died in 1853
• Man