Robert Adams (physician)

Robert Adams (physician)

Robert Adams (1791 - 13 or 16 January 1875) was an Irish surgeon who was educated at Trinity College, Dublin between 1810 and 1814, and who later became president of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Dublin Pathological Society, and, in 1862, both Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland, and Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Dublin.

His work focussed on cardiac, respiratory, vascular and joint diseases, and emphasised postmortem examination. He published a number of important medical texts, including "Diseases of the Heart", but it was his work on gout, from which he suffered himself, that made him famous.

Stokes-Adams disease is named after him.

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