To the 225th Anniversary of the Birth of Robert James Graves

Abstract

Robert James Graves is an eminent medical practitioner who has made significant contributions to this field. The main path of the scientist began by no means with medical practice, but with extensive travels that prompted him to start and fruitfully carry out scientific activity in the future. The scientific activity carried out by Robert James Graves throughout his life formed special preconditions for the development of medical education and entire fields of medicine. The practice of students, according to his teaching model, was not typical, but many experts in this field spoke about it quite positively, for example, such as T.J. McKenn and Armand Trousseau. He made history 180 years ago by discovering an autoimmune disease, which causes hyperthyroidism, he was known as a physician whose contribution covered the entire field of endocrinology, cardiology, infectious diseases and neurology.