A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest. Part I, Diseases of the lung and windpipe / by William Stokes ; with memoir by Dr. Acland ; edited for the New Sydenham Society by Alfred Hudson.

  • William Stokes
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1882
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Credit: A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest. Part I, Diseases of the lung and windpipe / by William Stokes ; with memoir by Dr. Acland ; edited for the New Sydenham Society by Alfred Hudson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    M E M 0 111 The Author of the work to which this Memoir is prefixed^Dr. William Stokes, was born in July of the year 1804, in the City of Dublin. His father, Whitley Stokes, was Kegius Professor of Medicine in the University and Senior Fellow of Trinity College. He was a man of lofty aims and untiring energy, and employed these not only in the work of his profession, but in promoting by various methods the welfare of his country. He was a successful teacher of medicine in the University of Dublin and in the Meath Hospital. By his exertions the Botanical Gardens and Museum of Trinity College were estab- lished. He was the first University Lecturer on Natural History, at a time when the conditions of society in Ireland were un- favourable to intellectual progress. Indeed, he sought to develop the resources of Ireland in many ways, and to further the education and religious instruction of the people through their native language. The early life of William Stokes was much influenced by his father. The boy was his assistant in his laboratory; the com- panion of his botanical and geological walks among the Dublin hills. This companionship was of the more value because the tone of Irish society, notwithstanding the brilliant talent and energy of the people, had not recovered the misfortunes, excite- ment, and depression consequent on the revolutionary movement which closed the 18th century. Trinity College had no adequate museum, lecture-rooms, or laboratories, such as were to be found in Edinburgh, Paris, Vienna, Leyden, or Berlin. No journal of medical science existed in Ireland before 1800. It was no doubt from these causes that Whitley Stokes, the father, sought his degree in Edinburgh in 1793, as did William Stokes in 1825;
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