Sir Thomas Lewis

Part 1: early life; family; education; medical school at University College Cardiff and University College London. Part 2: graduates; house appointments at University College Hospital; research on pulse and blood pressure; meets Dr James Mackenzie in 1908; becomes editor of "Heart". Part 3: the electrocardiograph; elucidates atrial fibrillation and other arrythmias; gets his own department; writes a much acclaimed monograph; meets Willem Einthoven. Part 4: appointed to the staff of UCH; studies on the excitory wave, bundle branch block and ventricular hypertrophy; research in medicine; visit to Canada and the United States of America. Part 5: the medical research committee; the World War; the soldier's heart and the effort syndrome. Part 6: department of clinical research established; atrial fibrillation and the circus movement; "mechanisms and graphic registration of the heart beat"; experimental and clinical studies with quindine. Part 7: visits Einthoven in Leiden; endocarditis research; congenital heart disease; visit to the United States of America. Part 8: war injuries used as research models; the triple response of the skin to injury, the H substance; monograph on blood vessels in the human skin; physiology and medicine; third edition of "The Mechanism"; Nobel prize for Einthoven; death of Mackenzie; controversy over dog experiments. Part 9: has a myocardial infarction; the Harvey film; Royal medal of the Royal Society; disagreement with W.H. Craib; presentation volume from his associates. Part 10: clinical science. Part 11: cold and the skin; cold urticaria and haemoglobinuria; acrocyanosis; Raynaud's disease. Part 12: intermittent claudication; factor P; angina pectoris; erythralgia; a visit to the United States of America in 1931; R.T. Grant's 1000 patient follow-up study. Part 13: "Diseases of the Heart"; the Harverian oration; completion of eight years' work on the peripheral criculation; the last volume of "Heart"; "Vascular Disorers of the Limbs"; a second myocardial infarction. Part 14: studies of pain; the Nocidensor system of nerves; double pain response in the skin; referred pain and tenderness. Part 15: the cardiographic department and the department of cinical research; hospital duties and teaching. Part 16: marriage; family life; holidays; hobbies. Part 17: the war years; effort syndrome; Llandough hospital; monograph on pain; views on digitalis; Copley medal; final illness and death.