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Born October 1, 1804 • Dublin • Ireland
Died January 10, 1878 (aged 73) • Ireland
Subjects Of Study Cheyne-Stokes breathing • Stokes-Adams syndrome • diagnosis • disease • heart • lung • physical examination
Robert Adams, drawing by an unknown artist
Robert Adams
Irish physician
René Laënnec
French physician
Robert James Graves
Irish physician
Sir James Mackenzie
Scottish physician
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
French physician
Sir Dominic John Corrigan, Baronet
Irish physician
Werner Forssmann
German physician
James Bryan Herrick
American physician
André F. Cournand
American physiologist
Duchenne, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand
Duchenne de Boulogne
French neurologist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
Addison, Thomas
Thomas Addison
British physician
Flint, Austin
Austin Flint
American physician
William Farr
British physician
Sir John Pringle, detail of an engraving by W.H. Mote after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet
English physician
Morell Mackenzie
Sir Morell Mackenzie
English physician
Allbutt, detail of a portrait by Sir William Orpen
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
British physician and inventor
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
British physiologist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician