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The John Kent Lewis Memorial Lecture

TINSLEY R. HARRISON, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(3):323-329.

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My.Y FIRST acquaintance with John Kent Lewis came about some decades ago when visiting in San Francisco in the home of our mutual friend, William Dock. At that time, and subsequently during conversations at various medical society meetings, I was impressed by "Jake's" penetrating mind, his complete scientific integrity, and his dry but kindly wit. These impressions were strengthened by perusal of his fundamental work on heart sounds and on thyrotoxicosis. To say that both in professional outlook and in personal qualities Jake Lewis always reminded me of Frank N. Wilson is to pay tribute to two fine thinkers and great gentlemen who are no longer with us.

It is perhaps no accident that a disease so dramatic as angina pectoris should have called forth some of the finest writing to be found in all medical literature. Heberden's original description remains unsurpassed either for accuracy of clinical delineation or for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BIRMINGHAM, ALA

From the Department of Medicine, Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham.

Footnotes
Received for publication Oct 28, 1965; accepted Dec 7.

Much of the material in this lecture has been derived from a forthcoming monograph, "Principles and Problems of Ischemic Heart Disease."

Reprint requests to University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, Ala 35203.

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