Robert Adams (physician) 5602986 171482059 2007-11-14T18:27:35Z SmackBot 433328 Standard headings &/or gen fixes., Replaced: =External Link= → =External links= using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] '''Robert Adams''' ([[1791]] - [[13 January|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 in Ireland|Royal College of Surgeons]] and the Dublin Pathological Society, and, in [[1862]], both Surgeon in Ordinary to the [[Monarch|Queen]] in Ireland, and Regius Professor of Surgery at the [[University of Dublin]]. His work focussed on [[heart|cardiac]], [[lungs|respiratory]], [[vein|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. ==External links== [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/132.html whonameit.com] {{med-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Robert}} [[Category:Irish doctors]] [[Category:1791 births]] [[Category:1875 deaths]] [[de:Robert Adams (Chirurg)]] [[pl:Robert Adams]] [[sv:Robert Adams]]