The Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Julia Sheppard.

  • Contemporary Medical Archives Centre
Date:
1987
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Credit: The Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Julia Sheppard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Another collection of significance is that of Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945), who is remembered not only for his work in the field of cardiology but also as a pioneer of 'clinical science' as a recognised discipline in medicine. He spent most of his career at University College Hospital, founded the journal Heart in 1909, and in 1930 helped to found the Medical Research Society. His papers include correspondence with many notable medical figures, including Sir Henry Dale, Willem Einthoven, John Fulton, Sir James Mackenzie, and Paul Dudley White. There is also correspondence and memoranda relating to military medicine. During the First World War Lewis investigated D.A.H. (deranged action of the heart), commonly known as 'soldier's heart', and during the Second World War he served on the Medical Research Council's Committees for the Care of Shipwrecked Personnel and for Vascular Injuries. Other subjects covered by this collection include the funding of clinical research, the anti-vivisection debate, and medical education in general. A cartoon by Sir David Low from the Evening Standard, 6th December 1930 (PP/MCS/B.26). The Irish Censorship law of 1928 had outlawed all books, newspapers, and periodicals advocating or advertising birth control, and on 31st December 1930 Pope Pius IX was to issue a papal encyclical on marriage which was strongly against contraception. The Stopes Collection includes the draft of a letter written by Marie Stopes to David Low after she had seen the cartoon '. . . I was never more delighted or amused than by your caricature ... If I had lectured to you for hours you could not have hit the nails more gloriously on the head of the shrinking President between the two smugly self- satisfied Roman Catholic clerics.' (PP/MCS/A. 164). -4-
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