Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1543

ROBERT JAMES GRAVES (1796-1853) A system of clinical medicine. Fannin 1843 xvi, 937 (misnumbered 637) pp. 22.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1541

A strong believer in the value of clinical teaching and an immensely successful clinical instructor, Graves "thought it to be my duty occasionally to publish the results of my observations" (Preface, p. v). Many of his lectures were published in the leading medical periodicals of the day and subsequently translated into French, German, or Italian for continental medical journals. Robley Dunglison (see No. 1595 ff.) published several courses of Graves' lectures in America (see No. 1541). As a result of such great interest, Graves was encouraged "not only to continue my exertions in the cultivation of practical medicine, but to revise what I had written and compress the whole within the limits of a single volume" (Preface, p. v) which he has done in this volume. The book contains two major sections. The first part consists of forty-four of Graves' clinical lectures on a wide variety of diseases. The second part contains fifty-seven of his papers that had previously appeared in the Dublin medical journal.

See Related Record(s): 1595 1541

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2218; Waller 3717; Wellcome III, p. 150

Gift of John Martin, M.D.