Authorised form of name | Stokes; William (1804 - 1878) |
Dates | 1804 - 1878 |
Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: St Finlan's, Howth (07 or 10 January 1878) |
Occupation | Physician |
Activity | Education: Private education; MD (Edinburgh, 1825); LLD Career: As a student published a book on the use of the stethoscope; Physician, Meath Hospital (1826); worked with Robert James Graves (FRS 1850) to reform medical teaching in Dublin; had a large practice; discovered 'Cheyne-Stokes breathing' pattern and 'Stokes Adams Syndrome'; Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Dublin (1843); retired from practice; Physician in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland; died two months after a paralytic stroke Memberships: LRCPI; MRIA; Imperial Society of Physicians of Vienna; Honorary Member, Royal Medical Societies of Berlin, Leipzig, and Sweden.
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 06/06/1861 |
Relationships | Son of Whitley Stokes, Professor of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin; married (1828) Mary Black |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Irish Innovators Notes: TR and Boase give death date as 07 January 1878; DNB gives 10 January 1878 |
Code | NA6034 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1861/15 | Stokes, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/4/858 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 November 1890 |
AP/39/7 | Letter, 'On the optical characters of certain alkaloids associated with quinine, and of the sulphates of their iodo-compounds' from William Bird Herapath to [George Gabriel] Stokes | 6 January 1856 |
AP/40/15 | Unpublished paper, 'The functions of tympanum' by James Jago | 1858 |
AP/40/3/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'Researches on cinchona alkaloids: critical examination of the ordinary methods employed for the discrimination of the cinchona alkaloids, quinine, quinidin, quinicine, and cinchonine, cinchonidin, cinchonicine, together with the optical and chemical characters of their iodo sulphates, upon which new methods are founded' by William Bird Herapath | 1857 |