Author Name:
STOKES WILLIAM (INSCRIBED).
Title:
RESULTS OF THE GERM THEORY ON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES. An Address Delivered at the Richmond Surgical Hospital Introductory to the Session of 1880-81.
Binding:
Paperback
Publisher:
Dublin:
Printed for the Author,
1880.
Seller ID:
18699
INSCRIBED ON THE COVER "TO PROF. G. G. STOKES WITH THE KIND REGARDS OF THE AUTHOR" Very Good+ Offprint in original printed wrappers. covers edge wear, soil. Vertical crease. 8vo. 15 pp.
The inscription from William Stokes (1838-1900) is to his uncle the noted physicist George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903). William Stokes was the fifth child and second son of the renowned physician William Stokes (1804-1878). The eponym "Cheyne-Stokes Respiration" is named for his father. The younger William was a renowned surgeon, professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Surgeon in Ireland to the Queen of England. George Stokes is best known for "Stoke's Law" which relates the force moving a body through a fluid to the velocity and size of the body and the viscosity of the fluid. A fine association copy.
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