Graves

Graves, ROBERT JAMES, physician, who did much to raise the status of his profession in Ireland, was born in 1797, the youngest son of the Dean of Ardagh. He studied medicine at Dublin, and after taking his degree visited the medical schools of London, Göttingen, Berlin, Copenhagen, those of France and Italy, and Edinburgh, and on his return home settled (1821) in his native city as a private practitioner and a teacher of medicine, especially distinguishing himself by the introduction of improved methods of clinical study. In 1827 he was appointed professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the College of Physicians, Dublin, of which college he was chosen president in 1843 and 1844. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1849. Many of his most remarkable papers appeared in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, which was founded by him in 1832. Dr Graves died on 20th March 1853. He published A System of Clinical Medicine (1843) and Clinical Lectures (1848). After his death his Studies in Physiology and Medicine was issued in 1863 by Dr W. Stokes. See Dublin University Magazine, 1842.