Person:William Stokes (21)

William was born 1oct1804 at Dublin and died at Howth 10jan1878 (encyclopedia brittanica). William Stokes, MD, Regius Prof of Physics, Dublin, was born 1804 amd married 1828, Mary Black, daughter of John Black, of Glasgow (Burke's Irish family records). William lived at 5 Merrion Sq. North, Dublin (1850 trade directory). Like his father Whitley, William Stokes (1804, Dublin-1878, Howth peninsula, Ireland) became Regius Professor of Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1825 and then returned to Ireland. He pioneered the use of the stethoscope, and wrote two famous treatises, one on "diseases of the chest" and another on "diseases of the heart and aorta“ . His name is attached to medical misfortunes such as Stokes-Adams syndrome and Cheyne-Stokes breathing. He was famous as a physician and teacher in Ireland and abroad. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He also was prominent in art, archaeology and Irish history, and was elected President of the Irish Academy. He wrote "The Life and Labors in Art and Archaeology of George Petrie, (1868)".

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