John Cheyne (physician)

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John Cheyne

John Cheyne
Engraving by John Cochran after a portrait by W. Deey
Born February 3, 1777
Leith, Scotland
Died January 31, 1836
Buckinghamshire, England
Residence British
Fields medicine
Alma mater Edinburgh University
Known for Cheyne–Stokes respiration
John Cheyne (February 3, 1777 – January 31, 1836) was a British physician, surgeon and author of monographs on a number of medical topics. He was one of the people to identify Cheyne–Stokes respiration.

Life

The son of a surgeon, he had grown up around medical practice and was able to enter Edinburgh University at the age of 15, graduating as a doctor at 18 years of age. He joined the army and worked as a surgeon with an artillery corps. He was present at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. Cheyne rejoined his father's practice four years later in 1799.

Ten years later, Cheyne moved to Dublin and in 1811 began working at the Meath Hospital. He also taught war medicine and was appointed Physician General to British forces in Ireland in 1820. He retired to England in 1831 following a course of ill health and died at his country estate a few years later.

Works

Cheyne wrote a number of books, including Essays of Diseases of Children in 1801. He was also the author of an early treastise on the larynx in 1809, Pathology of the Membrane of the Larynx and Bronchia.

With Francis Barker, he published a two-volume work on fever epidemics in Ireland, in 1821.[1]

References

  • Doyle, D (December 2006). "Eponymous doctors associated with Edinburgh, Part 2--David Bruce, John Cheyne, William Stokes, Alexander Monro Secundus, Joseph Gamgee". The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 36 (4): 374–81. PMID 17526135. 
  • Pearce, J M S (May 2002). "Cheyne–Stokes respiration". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 72 (5): 595. doi:10.1136/jnnp.72.5.595. PMC 1737878. PMID 11971044. 
  • Tollis, D (1995). "Who were ... Cheyne and Stokes?". Nursing times 91 (14): 40. PMID 7731827. 
  • Lyons, J B (March 1995). "John Cheyne's classic monographs". Journal of the history of the neurosciences 4 (1): 27–35. doi:10.1080/09647049509525624. PMID 11619012. 
  • Sternbach, G L (. 1985). "John Cheyne and William Stokes: periodic respiration". The Journal of emergency medicine 3 (3): 233–6. doi:10.1016/0736-4679(85)90078-2. PMID 3912428. 
  • Bendiner, E (June 1984). "The Dublin school: from poverty, a rich legacy". Hosp. Pract. (Off. Ed.) 19 (6): 221–47. PMID 6427248. 

Notes

  1. ↑ Geary, Laurence M. "Barker, Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1394.  (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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