Robert James Graves

Robert James Graves
Robert James Graves, F.R.C.S.was an eminent Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the co-founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. He is also the uncredited inventor of the second-hand on watches...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionScientist
CountryIreland
progress disease students
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
taste pleasure duty
Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
loss giving fever
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
drs ears hearing
We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.