Graves' disease

“GRAVES’ H IS father a DubIin clergyman, Robert James Graves was born in 1796. He took his medical degree in 1818. He followed this, as was usual with many of his time, by a tour of the continent. While on this journey he had enough adventures to satisfy selreral char- acters from the pen of a Conrad or a Kipling. He was arrested as a German spy in Austria. He successfully queIIed a mutiny on board the ship on which he was a passenger in the Mediterranean, took command and, by his daring and nerve, saved the ship from being wrecked. In 1821 he returned to DubIin. At once he became as active as the proverbia1 bee. He was made chief physician to the Meath HospitoI. He was one of the founders of the Park Street SchooI of Medicine. He introduced new methods of clinica teaching common to continenta teachers, the feature of which was to have advance students handle and report on clinica cases. He ended the abuse of poor patients, dependent on charit>-, who DISEASE.” had to suffer from the borish, brutal Irish physicians of the day. He published his CIinical Lectures in 1848. These lectures contained much matter new at that time, such as the “pin-hoIe pupi1,” counting the pulse by the watch, and throwing into the discard the time-worn treatment of fevers by Iowering them. Graves was almost a fanatic concerning therapeutic innovation. He requested that his epitaph read, “He fed fevers.” Between 1843 and 1848 he published essays on scleroderma, erythromelaIgia an d angioneurotic edema. He published his enduring account of exophthalmic goiter, which pathoIogica1 condition stiI1 is known by his name, in 1835.’ Graves was tall, swarthy, and had a distinguished manner. He had a habit of sarcastic speech but was generous and warm hearted. He died in the most active period of his Iabors in 1853, at the com- paratil-ely early age of fifty-seven years. T. S. ?z!. ‘LOO. .\I. I’- S. J., 1X3j. 286

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“GRAVES’

H IS father a DubIin clergyman, Robert James Graves was born in 1796. He took his medical degree

in 1818. He followed this, as was usual with many of his time, by a tour of the continent. While on this journey he had enough adventures to satisfy selreral char- acters from the pen of a Conrad or a Kipling. He was arrested as a German spy in Austria. He successfully queIIed a mutiny on board the ship on which he was a passenger in the Mediterranean, took command and, by his daring and nerve, saved the ship from being wrecked. In 1821 he returned to DubIin. At once he became as active as the proverbia1 bee. He was made chief physician to the Meath HospitoI. He was one of the founders of the Park Street SchooI of Medicine. He introduced new methods of clinica teaching common to continenta teachers, the feature of which was to have advance students handle and report on clinica cases. He ended the abuse of poor patients, dependent on charit>-, who

DISEASE.” had to suffer from the borish, brutal Irish physicians of the day. He published his CIinical Lectures in 1848. These lectures contained much matter new at that time, such as the “pin-hoIe pupi1,” counting the pulse by the watch, and throwing into the discard the time-worn treatment of fevers by Iowering them. Graves was almost a fanatic concerning therapeutic innovation. He requested that his epitaph read, “He fed fevers.” Between 1843 and 1848 he published essays on scleroderma, erythromelaIgia an d angioneurotic edema. He published his enduring account of exophthalmic goiter, which pathoIogica1 condition stiI1 is known by his name, in 1835.’

Graves was tall, swarthy, and had a distinguished manner. He had a habit of sarcastic speech but was generous and warm hearted. He died in the most active period of his Iabors in 1853, at the com- paratil-ely early age of fifty-seven years.

T. S. ?z!. ‘LOO. .\I. I’- S. J., 1X3j.

286