Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1665

WILLIAM STOKES (1804-1878) Researches on the state of the heart, and the use of wine in typhus fever. A. Waldie 1840 pp. [1]-48. 21.7 cm.

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Stokes made over 140 contributions to the scientific literature and wrote on such topics as aneurism of the aorta, diseases of the spleen and intestines, neoplasms of the oral cavity, cerebrospinal meningitis, tapeworms, diphtheria, medical ethics, smallpox, pemphigus, and hydrocephalus. Stokes was especially interested in the cardiac manifestations of disease and, in this work on the use of wine in treating typhus, pays particular attention to its effect on the circulatory system. He describes nineteen case histories in detail and notes how wine influenced the outcome of each case. He gives postmortem results in the five cases which resulted in death. The work was first published in the March, 1839 issue of the Dublin journal of medical science.

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