Stokes, William

Stokes, William

(born Oct. 1, 1804, Dublin, Ire.—died Jan. 10, 1878, Howth, near Dublin) Irish physician. He received his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh and returned to Dublin, where he encouraged students to work, under faculty supervision, in hospital wards and to acquire a general as well as a medical education. He succeeded his father as Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Dublin. His publications included A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837), The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854), and one of the first English works on the stethoscope.