Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1541

ROBERT JAMES GRAVES (1796-1853) Clinical lectures delivered during the sessions of 1834-5 and 1836-7. A. Waldie 1838 xi, 405 [2] pp. 22.5 cm.

Graves was chief physician to the Meath Hospital in Dublin and a founder of the Park Street School of Medicine. He introduced the best types of the continental methods of clinical teaching and was also well known for his reforms in patient care. While at Meath Hospital he gave a series of clinical lectures which became well known and widely read. First published in journals in Great Britain, the series for two sessions were first collected by Dunglison (see No. 1595 ff.) and published together in this rare Philadelphia edition. His later clinical lectures, given at the Park Street School, introduced such innovations as the "pin-hole pupil," timing the pulse by the watch, and discarding the practice of "starving" fevers and replacing it with "feeding" fevers. In fact, he once requested that his epitaph be, "He fed fevers."

See Related Record(s): 1595

Cited references: Osler 2818; Waller 3718

Gift of Robert N. Larimer, M.D