Robert Adams
Biography
- Born 1791
- 1814 – BA, Trinity College, Dublin
- 1815 – Licentiate, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- 1818 – Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- 1832 – MA, Trinity College, Dublin
- 1842 – MB, degree in medicine; MD, doctor of medicine
- 1861 – Master of medicine
- 1862 – Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Dublin; Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland
- Died 13 January 1875 in Dublin
Medical Eponyms
Stokes-Adams syndrome (1827)
Key Medical Contributions
Major Publications
- Adams R. Cases of diseases of the heart accompanied with pathological observations. Dublin Hospital Reports. 1827; 4: 353–453.
Controversies
References
Biography
- Obituary. Robert Adams MA, MD, MCh, FRCSI. Medical times and gazette 1875; 50(1): 133
- Cameron CA. Robert Adams. History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 1886: 395-396
- Stephen L. Adams, Robert. Dictionary of national biography. 1885: 100-101
- Dublin Masters of Clinical Expression: II. Robert Adams (1791-1875). Journal of the Irish College of Physicians and Surgeons 1974; 3: 127-129.
- Wooley CF. Robert Adams–“a Dublin master of clinical expression”. Clin Cardiol. 1996; 19(6): 523-524.
Eponymous terms
eponym
the person behind the name
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