." Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. The Youngest Science is Thomass autobiography and begins with memories of his fathers practice in 1913 when the primary function of doctors was to diagnose. }; document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Russians Have a Word for Dressing Up Reality. Everyone should stop smoking; but we are still obliged, like it or not, to rely on science for any hope of solving such biological puzzles as Alzheimers disease, schizophrenia, cancer, coronary thrombosis, stroke, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cirrhosis, chronic nephritis, and now, topping the list, AIDS. A complete bibliography of Lewis twelve books and 229 scientific papers is in the notice by A. N. Drury and R. T. Grant, in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 5 (1945), 179-202. His last book, Exercise in Human Physiology (1945), demonstrates his interest in medical education and presents a detailed account of simple experiments that students may make on themselves. Everyone, even the visitors, seems pressed for time; there is never enough time; the whole place is overworked to near collapse, out of breath, bracing for the next irremediable catastrophethe knife wounds in the Emergency Ward, the flat lines on the electroencephalogram, the cardiac arrests, and always everywhere on every ward and in every room the dying. I wish Konner had paid more attention in his notes to the central role of nurses in the modern teaching hospital; they deserve more respect and attention from everybody (and much more pay). About the only professionals who are always on the wards, watching out for the unforeseen, talking and listening to the patients families, are the nurses, who somehow manage, magically, to hold the place together for all its tendency to drift toward shambles. The ways were direct and forthright: Open a vein and take away a pint or more of blood at a sitting, enough to produce faintness and a bluish pallor, place suction cups on the skin to draw out lymph, administer huge doses of mercury or various plant extracts to cause purging, and, if all else failed, induce vomiting. background: none !important; (university gold medal) in 1905, M.D. In his youth he often accompanied his physician father on his rounds and Lewis most important contribution to medicine may have been his concept of clinical science, his insistence that progress in medicine would come chiefly from scientific studies on living men in health and disease, rather than from the basic science laboratories and from animal experimentation. Following his training as a doctor, Lewis Thomas had what he refers to in his autobiography as the guiltiest of wars; his orders allowed him to do things he enjoyed. .woocommerce .woocommerce-message::before { color: #22a9f7; } In the improbable love story of Bronx /*