STOKES, William (1804 – 1878)
1804 – 1878
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1825 CE
#2674
An introduction to the use of the stethoscope.
Stokes, famous member of the Irish school of medicine, published the first systematic treatise on the use of the stethoscope – and this before his qualification at Edinburgh. His name is perpetuated in medical l…
1837 CE
#2213
A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest.
Stokes, most prominent of the Irish school of medicine, established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described b…
1846 CE
#2756
Observations on some cases of permanently slow pulse.
Stokes’s celebrated account of heart block with syncopal attacks – the Stokes–Adams syndrome (see also No. 2745). Stokes was most interested in the diagnostic value of this condition. The paper is re…
1854 CE
#2760
The diseases of the heart and aorta.
On pp. 320-27 is to be found Stokes’s account of fatty degeneration of the heart, in which he so well described the periodic form of respiration now known as “Cheyne–Stokes breathing.” Stokes a…