biography
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| lived:
| (1804–78)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh (1825) and returned to Dublin, where he became physician to the Meath Hospital, a post previously held by his father, Whitley Stokes. The leading Irish physician of his day, he headed the Irish (or Dublin) school of anatomical diagnosis, which emphasized clinical examination of patients in forming a diagnosis. His many works include A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease of the Chest (1837) and Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854). He also gave his name to the Adams–Stokes syndrome, with colleague Robert Adams. |
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