Thomas Lewis (cardiologist)

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Sir Thomas Lewis

Sir Thomas Lewis , (born December 26, 1881 in Roath , Cardiff , Wales , † March 17, 1945 in Loudwater , Hertfordshire ) was a British cardiologist .

Lewis was the son of a mining engineer and was tutored mostly privately. From 1897 he studied at University College Cardiff with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1900. In 1902 he continued his medical training at University College Hospital (UCH) in London with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1905, where he was awarded a gold medal the university received. In the same year he received a D. Sc. from the University of Wales. He stayed at UCH for the rest of his career. In 1907 he received his medical doctor (MD). He was a house physician at UCH and in 1911 he became a lecturer in the pathology of heart disease. He made a name for himself for basic research in cardiology and early (1908) introduced electrocardiography into clinical practice and corresponded with its inventor Willem Einthoven since 1906 . In 1919 he got a full position as a physician at UCH.

During the First World War he was at the Military Heart Hospital in Hampstead for research on cardiophobia (called Soldier's Heart ) for the precursor of the Medical Research Council , about which he wrote a book ( The Soldier's Heart and the Effort Syndrome , 1918). He recognized the nervous cause of the disease and found ways of therapy that allowed the soldiers to continue to work at the front, for which he received the CBE in 1920 and was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 1921 . He founded a department for clinical research at UCH. In the mid-1920s, he switched his research focus from cardiac arrhythmias to vascular reactions of the skin and then to diseases of peripheral vessels such as Raynaud's syndrome and the pain mechanisms. After suffering a heart attack at the age of 45 and then giving up excessive smoking, he died in 1945 of coronary heart disease.

In 1913 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP). In 1918 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Royal Medal he received in 1927, whose Copley Medal he received in 1941 and whose Vice President he was from 1943 to 1945.

In 1909 he founded Heart magazine with James MacKenzie. In 1933 he renamed the journal Clinical Science (a term he introduced in English). In 1930 he founded the Medial Research Society.

He had been married to Alice Lorna Treharne James since 1916 and had three children.

In 1981 he was honored with a postage stamp in Mauritius. In addition, the Lewis Sound in Antarctica bears his name.

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literature

  • AN Drury, RT Grand, Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Society 1945
  • OBITUARY Sir Thomas Lewis . British Medical Journal 1945; (Published 31 March 1945)
  • Arthur Hollman: Sir Thomas Lewis, Pioneer Cardiologist and Clinical Scientist Springer Verlag 1997 ISBN 978-1-4471-1237-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Triple Response of Lewis is named after him here (1924)
  2. ^ LF Haas: Sir Thomas Lewis 1881-1945. In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry . Volume 76, number 8, August 2005, p. 1157, doi : 10.1136 / jnnp.2004.055269 , PMID 16024897 , PMC 1739765 (free full text).
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Roath , Cardiff , Wales
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1945
Place of death Loudwater , Hertfordshire