William Stokes ( 1804 - 1878 )

Birth: Dublin, Ireland (1804) Burial: St Finlan's, Howth (07 or 10 January 1878) Profession: Physician 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.