John Honour, Sir Thomas Lewis's personal laboratory assistant

摘要

Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945) was a renwned cardiologist and a great pioneer of scientific medicine. His entire working lift was spent at University College Hospital London where his department was a power house of original work into cardiac arrhythmias, the peripheral circulation, and pain. His outstand- ing ability attracted young research workers from around the world. In addition, he founded and was the sole editor of the presti- gious journals Heart and Clinical Science. When I wrote about a technician who had Helped Lewis with his early work, Dr Howard Burchell remarked to me that the technicians Of distinguished scientists and doctors rarely Get mentioned in the literature.