biography
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| lived:
| (c.1791–1875)
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| biography:
| Surgeon, born in Ireland. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he studied medicine in Europe and returned to Dublin where he set up a practice. He became surgeon to the Jervis Street and Richmond hospitals, and surgeon to the queen in Ireland (1861). In 1827 he described a condition known as the Adams–Stokes syndrome, with colleague William Stokes. |
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