William Henry Stone (physician)

William Henry Stone FRCP (5 July 1830, London – 5 July 1891, Wandsworth, London) was an English physician, known for his studies on electro-therapy and the electrical properties of the human body.[1][2][3]

After education at Charterhouse School,[1] William Henry Stone matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 30 November 1848. He graduated there B.A. in 1852 and M.A. in 1855.[4] He was a medical student at St Thomas’ Hospital and graduated there with B.M. degree in 1856.[1] After a brief visit to Trinidad as a medical inspector of health, Stone returned in 1857 to St Thomas' Hospital as medical registrar. In 1861 he was appointed physician to the Surrey Dispensary and assistant physician to the Royal Brompton Hospital. At St Thomas' Hospital, he lectured on forensic medicine, became in 1874 assistant physician and lecturer on materia medica and physics, and became in 1882 full physician; he retired there in the summer of 1890 due to health problems. In 1863 he was elected F.R.C.P.[1][2]

In 1868 Stone became physician to the London office of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society[1][5] and continued in that capacity for many years.[6] His successor at the insurance company was J. Kingston Fowler.[7] Stone was a vice-president of the Physical Society of London.[2]

Stone delivered, to the Royal College of Physicians, the Croonian Lecture (On some Applications of Physics to Medicine) in 1879.[8] He delivered the Lumleian Lectures (The Electrical Condition of the Human Body: Man as a Conductor and Electrolyte) in 1886[9][10] and the Harveian Oration in 1887.[11]

References
  1. "William Henry Stone". Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians, Munk's Roll.
  2. "Obituary. William Henry Stone, M.A., M.B.Oxon., F.R.C.P." British Medical Journal. 2: 105–106. 11 July 1891. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.1593.105.
  3. "Obituary. William Henry Stone, M.A., M.B.Oxon., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S." The Lancet. 2: 153. 18 July 1891. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(02)00598-6.
  4. Alumni oxonienses: members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. 4. p. 1360.
  5. Stone, W. H.; Heller, Stewart (1870). On some points in the medical history of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society. vol. 7.
  6. Wyatt, Frank B.; Stone, W. H. (1891). "Report on the medical history of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society, from 1829 to 1887, by William H. Stone, M.B., F.R.C.P.". Report on the mortality experience of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society, from 1829 to 1887 by F. B. Wyatt (with an additional report by W. H. Stone). pp. 41–46.
  7. "Clergy Mutual Assurance Society (advertisement)". The Athenaeum (No. 3410): 295. 4 March 1893.
  8. "Croonian Lectures ON SOME APPLICATIONS OF PHYSICS TO MEDICINE". The Lancet. 114 (2937): 864–865. 1879. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)48126-3.
  9. Stone, William H. (17 April 1886). "Abstracts of the Lumleian Lectures on the Electrical Condition of the Human Body: Man as a Conductor and Electrolyte". British Medical Journal. 1 (1320): 728–730. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.1320.728. PMC 2256989.
  10. Stone, William H. (1 May 1886). "Abstracts of the Lumleian Lectures on the Electrical Condition of the Human Body; Man as a Conductor and Electrolyte". British Medical Journal. 1 (1322): 812–813. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.1322.812. PMC 2257093.
  11. "Harveian Oration". Nature: 589–590. 20 October 1887.
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