Thomas Lewis (cardiologist)
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 taught mainly private. From 1897 he studied at University College Cardiff with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1900. 1902 he continued his medical training at University College Hospital ( UCH ) in London continue to the Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery degree ( MBBS ) in 1905, where he a Gold medal of the University received. In the same year he was awarded a D.Sc. for his research. the University of Wales. He remained for the rest of his career at UCH. In 1907 he received his medical doctorate (MD). He was House Physician at UCH and 1911 he was a lecturer in pathology of heart disease. He made a name for Basic Research in Cardiology and led early ( 1908) Electrocardiography in clinical practice and corresponded to since 1906 with its inventor Willem Einthoven. In 1919, he received a full-time position as a Physician at UCH. In World War I he was at the Military Heart Hospital in Hampstead for research for the precursor of the Medical Research Council on Cardio phobia ( Soldier's Heart called ), 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 therapeutic approaches, which allowed the other in Front of the soldiers, for which he received in 1920 the CBE and was knighted in 1921. He founded a Department of Clinical Research at UCH. Mid-1920s, he switched his research focus of arrhythmia to vascular reactions of the skin and then to diseases of peripheral vessels such as Raynaud's syndrome and pain mechanisms. After he had already suffered a heart attack at 45 years and then gave up his excessive smoking he died in 1945 from 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, the Royal Medal in 1927, the Copley Medal he was awarded in 1941 and its vice- president, he was from 1943 to 1945.
In 1909 he founded the journal Heart with James MacKenzie. In 1933, he called the magazine in Clinical Science at (a term he introduced in English ). In 1930 he founded the Medial Research Society.
He was married to Alice Lorna Treharne James since 1916 and had three children.
In 1981 he was honored with a stamp in Mauritius.
Writings
- Clinical Electrocardiography 1913
- The Soldier's Heart and the Effort Syndrome, 1918
- The blood vessels of the human skin and Their responses, 1927
- Diseases of the Heart, 1932