William Stokes (physician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Stokes (physician)

Irish physician

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1804

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1878

Profession: physician, university teacher, cardiologist

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About William Stokes (physician)

  • William Stokes (1 October 1804 – 10 January 1878) was an Irish physician, who was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Dublin.
  • He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with an MD in 1825 later returning the practice in Dublin at Meath Hospital.
  • He went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases – A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837) and The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854) – as well as one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope.
  • He emphasised the importance of clinical examination in forming diagnoses, and of ward-based learning for students of medicine. Both Cheyne–Stokes breathing (the alternation of apnoea with tachypnoea) and Stokes–Adams syndrome are named after him.
  • Stokes' sign is a severe throbbing in the abdomen, at the right of the umbilicus, in acute enteritis.
  • Stokes law is that a muscle situated above an inflamed membrane is often affected with paralysis. In 1858 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  • In June 1861 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as: "The Author of A work on the Diseases of the Lungs, and of a work on the Diseases of the Heart and Aorta – and of other contributions to Pathological Science.
  • Eminent as a Physician".
  • He was elected President of the Royal Irish Academy for 1874–76.His son, Whitley Stokes, was a notable lawyer and Celtic scholar, his daughter Margaret Stokes an archaeologist and writer.

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