Robert Adams (physician)
Robert Adams ( * 1791 in Dublin, † January 13, 1875 ) was an Irish surgeon.
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 located in his hometown on the Mount Jerome Cemetery.
Education and work
In February 1810, he began his medical training with an apprenticeship with Dr. William Hartigan, the leading surgeons of Dublin, after his death in 1813 at the General he doctor the English army in Ireland, George Stewart, could further educate themselves. The General Education took place at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1814 (BA). Other academic degrees he acquired in later times (MA 1832, MB, MD 1842, MS 1861). To further his surgical skills, he spent some time on the mainland in surgical clinics.
1815 one took him on as a licentiate and in 1818 as a Fellow at the Irish College of Surgeons; 1828 was followed by the membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Adams worked as a surgeon at Jervis Street Hospital and at the Richmond Hospital (1835-1873) in Dublin. With Kirby and Read, he founded the Peter Street School of Medicine, however, from whom he parted again. Together with R. Carmichael and E. Mac Dowel he built the Richmond School of Medicine on (later called Carmichael School ), where he held as a professor of surgical lectures.
Services
Adams was an excellent surgeon and anatomist, he had done most of his anatomical studies led by Abraham Colles. Adams fame was based primarily on the successful monograph A Treatise on Rheumatic Gout, or Chronic Rheumatic arthritis of all the joints (chronic rheumatoid arthritis). This work was long considered a classic description of this disease (Adams himself suffered to it).
In addition to contributions on abnormal joints deserve especially in the Dublin Hospital Reports and Communications in Medicine and Surgery ( 1827), a 100-page monograph, published essays on heart disease attention. He not only described the symptoms and pathology of heart block, but dealt pectoris with heart failure due to pericardial adhesions, cardiac hypertrophy, the Koronargefäßsklerose, with arrhythmias in valvular heart disease and angina.
They chose him three times as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and in 1861 he was admitted as a physician to the Queen in Ireland and as a professor of surgery at the University of Dublin. In addition, Adams was a member of some British and foreign medical societies.
According to him, William Stokes and the Stokes-Adams syndrome ( Morgagni -Adams -Stokes syndrome) is named.
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