William Senhouse Kirkes (21 January 1822 near Cartmel, Lancashire - 8 December 1864) was an English physiologist noted for his reference work "Kirkes' Physiology" which first appeared in 1848. [1]
Kirkes' main research field was cardiology and vascular disease, and he first described embolism from vegetations in infective endocarditis in 1852. In 1855 he published a paper on apoplexy in Bright's disease, in which he singled out the role played by increased intra-arterial tension in arterial disease. [2]
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