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William Stokes (physician)

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William Stokes (1st October 1804 - 10th January 1878) was an Irish physician. Educated in medicine at the Meath Hospital in Dublin, he went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases. Cheyne-Stokes breathing is named after him, it is the alternation of apnea with hyperapnea.


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