About William Henry Stone
Lived 1830 – 1891 (aged 60–61). William Henry Stone was a physician and physicist.
William Henry Stone (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.
Biography After education at Charterhouse School, He was a medical student at St Thomas’ Hospital and graduated there with B.M. degree in 1856. and continued in that capacity for many years. His successor at the insurance company was J. Kingston Fowler. Stone was a vice-president of the Physical Society of London. He delivered the Lumleian Lectures (The Electrical Condition of the Human Body: Man as a Conductor and Electrolyte) in 1886 and the Harveian Oration in 1887.
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