LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
1841 – 1886
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Comrie, John D. (1932) History of scottish Medicine. Volume 2. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London. Physiological and pathological researches; being a reprint of the principal scientific writings of the late T. R. Lewis. In memoriam. Arranged and ed. by Sir William Aitken, G. E. Dobson, and A. E. Brown · Public domain
1871 CE
#5344.8
On a haemotozoon inhabiting human blood. Its relation to chyluria and other diseases.
Independently of Demarquay (No. 5344.3) and Wucherer (No. 5344.6), Lewis found microfilariae in the urine and blood in chyluria. He was first to use the term Filaria sanguinis hominis for the parasite.
1877 CE
#10787
Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.
Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an ed…
1877 CE
#10722
Leprosy in India. A report.
The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…
1878 CE
#5270.1
The microscopic organisms found in the blood of man and animals, and their relation to disease.
First description of a trypanosome (T. lewisi) in a mammal. Seoarate edition in book form with the same title: Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1879.