LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)

1909 CE

#2830

Auricular fibrillation; a common clinical condition.

First description of auricular fibrillation as a cause of clinical perpetual arrhythmia. See also the paper in Heart, London, 1909-10, 1,306-72.

1911 CE

#2851

The mechanism of the heartbeat: With special reference to its clinical pathology.

Sir Thomas Lewis was a pioneer in the application of electrocardiography to clinical medicine. His book was both an exhaustive treatise on the subject for its time, and a valuable bibliographical source. Second editio…

1912 CE

#2840

Electro-cardiography and its importance in the clinical examination of heart affections.

1913 CE

#11679

Clinical electrocardiography.

The first textbook of electrocardiography.

1914 CE

#12258

The excitatory process in the dog's heart. Part 1. The auricles.

Experiments designed to identify the "origin of the contraction wave in the mammalian heart." Three photographic plates depict numerous electrocardiographic recordings. "From 1910 to 1916, Lewis and his associates per…

1917 CE

#2847

Report upon soldiers returned as cases of “disordered action of the heart” (D.A.H.) or “valvular disease of the heart” (V.D.H.).

Medical Research Committee Special Rept. No. 8. Sir Thomas Lewis described as “effort syndrome” the condition of disordered action of the heart known as “Da Costa’s syndrome”.

1924 CE

#2602

Vascular reactions of the skin to injury. II. The liberation of a histamine-like substance in injured skin; the underlying cause of factitious urticaria and of wheals produced by burning; and observations upon the nervous control of certain skin reactions.

Lewis postulated that a histamine-like substance (“H-substance”) was responsible for the anaphylaxis symptom-complex. See also The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses, 1927 (No. 797).

1927 CE

#797

The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses.

1932 CE

#2862

A lecture on vaso-vagal syncope and the carotid sinus mechanism.

Vaso-vagal syncope.