robert james graves

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born 1796, Dublin, Ire. died March 20, 1853, Dublin Irish physician. In 1821 he set up the Park Street School of Medicine, where he gave his advanced students responsibility for patients (under supervision) and lectured in English, not Latin. He was a founder and editor of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. His Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine (1848) established his reputation. He introduced timing of the pulse by watch and giving patients with fevers nourishment instead of withholding it. He was a leader of the Irish (Dublin) school of diagnosis, which stressed observation of patients, and was one of the first to fully describe exophthalmic goitre (Graves disease)

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a British poet and writer whose most famous works are his novels set in ancient Roman times, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, and for his description of his life as a soldier in World War I, Goodbye to All That (1895-1985). born July 24/26, 1895, London, Eng. died Dec. 7, 1985, Deyá, Majorca, Spain British man of letters. He served as an officer at the Western Front during World War I and his first three volumes of poetry were published during that time; they include some of the finest English love poems of the century. In 1926 he began a 13-year relationship with the American poet Laura Riding (1901-91), with whom he founded a press, briefly published a journal, and collaborated as a writer. After 1929 he lived principally in Majorca, Spain. The most famous of his more than 120 books are Good-bye to All That (1929), a grim memoir of the war; the historical novel I, Claudius (1934; televised in 1976); and erudite, controversial studies in mythology, notably The White Goddess (1948)

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Rob·ert James Graves

Turkish pronunciation

räbırt ceymz greyvz

Pronunciation

/ˈräbərt ˈʤāmz ˈgrāvz/ /ˈrɑːbɜrt ˈʤeɪmz ˈɡreɪvz/