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William Stokes

1804 - 1878

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William Stokes (1 October 1804 – 10 January 1878) was an Irish physician and Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College Dublin. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with an MD in 1825, later returning to practice in Dublin at Meath Hospital. He went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases – A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837) and The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854) – as well as one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope. He emphasised the importance of clinical examination in forming diagnoses, and of ward-based learning for students of medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Stokes is the 584th most popular physician (up from 658th in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 288th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Stokes ranks 584 out of 726. Before him are Eugene Lazowski, Patrick Steptoe, Albrecht von Graefe, Nikolay Burdenko, Andrea Andreen, and James Paget. After him are Nikolai Semashko, Oskar Vogt, Gregorio Marañón, Kamal Ranadive, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and Oswaldo Cruz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, William Stokes ranks 66. Before him are Mariana Pineda, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Julius Benedict, Johan Nicolai Madvig, and Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. After him are Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Peder Balke, Emma Smith, Fruto Chamorro, William Barton Rogers, and József Bajza. Among people deceased in 1878, William Stokes ranks 57. Before him are Kikuchi Yōsai, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Fabre Geffrard, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, Aleardo Aleardi, and Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz. After him are José María Medina, Nicolae Golescu, Thomas Thomson, Jaroslav Čermák, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, and William M. Tweed.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Stokes ranks 228 out of 549. Before him are Andrew Scott (1976), William Trevor (1928), Jane Wilde (1821), Sara Allgood (1879), John Bruton (1947), and John Boyne (1971). After him are John Sealy Townsend (1868), John Philip Holland (1840), Willoughby Hamilton (1864), Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909), Ray McAnally (1926), and Garret FitzGerald (1926).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Ireland

Among physicians born in Ireland, William Stokes ranks 2. Before him are James Barry (1795). After him are Joshua Pim (1869), and Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737).

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