William Senhouse Kirkes

William Senhouse Kirkes

William Senhouse Kirkes (born January 21, 1822 near Holker at Cartmel , Lancashire , † December 8, 1864 in Marylebone , London ) was an English physiologist .

Career and work

William Senhouse Kirkes was born to Morecroft Kirkes and his wife Anne. He was baptized in Cartmel Parish Church on March 22, 1822 . After attending Cartmel Grammar School , he began training as a surgeon with his mother's relatives in Lancaster at the age of 14 . After five years, he finished his training in 1841 and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London . The licentiate he graduated from the Humboldt University of Berlin . His dissertation dealt with the tenotomy (severing of the tendons). In 1950 he received the LRCP in London.

He worked as a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital and as a lecturer at the hospital's medical college. In 1848 he published the Handbook of Physiology - a standard work in physiology. He did research in the field of emboli . Kirkes was the first to recognize the link between high blood pressure and chronic kidney failure.

In 1864, Kirkes died of severe pneumonia after a brief, serious illness . He was married to Caroline (1833–?).

Publications

• WS Kirkes: Kirkes' Handbook of Physiology. 1848.
• WS Kirkes: On some of the principal effects of resulting from detachment of fibrinous deposits from the interior of the heart, and their mixture with the circulating blood. In: Med Chir Trans. Volume 35, 1852, pp. 281-324.
• WS Kirkes: Cases, with remarks illustrating the association of chorea with rheumatism and disease of the heart. In: Trans Abernethian Soc St Bartholomew's Hosp. Volume 8, 1850, pp. 55-69.
• WS Kirkes, H. Coote: Tubercular inflammation of the brain. In: Med Times Gaz. Volume II, 1850, pp. 200-203.
• WS Kirkes, H. Coote: Fatal jaundice: Disorganization of the liver. In: Med Times Gaz. Volume II, 1850, pp. 539-541.
• WS Kirkes, H. Coote: Hydatid cyst in the pleura. In: Med Times Gaz. Volume I, 1851, pp. 10-12.
• WS Kirkes, H. Coote: Malignant disease of the lung. In: Med Times Gaz. Volume I, 1851, pp. 675-676.
• WS Kirkes: On apoplexy in relation to chronic renal disease. In: Med Times Gaz. Volume 24, 1855, pp. 515-517.
• WS Kirkes: On hypertrophy of the left ventricle of the heart. In: Med Times Gaz. Volume XV, 1857, pp. 135-137.

further reading

• JM Pearce: Cerebral embolism in endocarditis: William Senhouse Kirkes (1823-64). In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry . Volume 74, Number 11, November 2003, p. 1570, ISSN  0022-3050 . PMID 14617719 . PMC 1738234 (free full text).
• The Late William Senhouse Kirkes. In: British Medical Journal . Volume 2, Number 208, December 1864, pp. 714-715, ISSN  0007-1447 . PMID 20744438 . PMC 2326416 (free full text).
• R. Marshall: The life and works of Dr. WS Kirkes [1823-1864]. In: St Bartholomew's Hospital journal. Volume 50, August 1946, pp. 91-95, ISSN  0036-2778 . PMID 20995402 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In a large number of biographies, the year 1823 is given as the year of birth
2. ↑ George Ripley , Charles A. Dana : William Senhouse Kirkes. In: American Cyclopaedia . D. Appleton And Company, 1873.
3. ↑ ^{a b} J. S. Cameron, J. Hicks: High blood pressure and the kidney: the forgotten contribution of William Senhouse Kirkes. In: Kidney International . Volume 57, Number 2, February 2000, pp. 724-734, ISSN  0085-2538 . doi : 10.1046 / j.1523-1755.2000.00895.x . PMID 10652052 .

Web links

• William Senhouse Kirkes (b. Dept. 1822, d. 8 December 1864). Family Tree Maker (English)