Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1666

WILLIAM STOKES (1804-1878) The diseases of the heart and the aorta. Hodges and Smith 1854 xvi, 689 pp. Copy 1: 22.2 cm.; Copy 2: 22.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1663

Stokes confirmed his importance as a clinician in this work on the heart. His description of fatty degeneration of the heart has hardly been improved upon. He also describes the condition of slow pulse accompanied by cerebral attacks of syncope, since known as the Stokes-Adams syndrome, and he first identified the weak semi-beats of the heart between regular contractions as contractions of the auricles.

Cited references: Cushing S434; Garrison-Morton 2760

Copy 2: Gift of William B. Bean, M.D