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DR. TIMOTHY BICHABDS LEWIS, a pioneer in tropical medicine and medical parasitology, was born on October 31, 1841, at Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire. He received his medical education at University College, London, and qualified at Aberdeen in 1867. He entered the Army Service at Netley in 1868 and successively held the office of assistant surgeon, surgeon and surgeon–major. After working for three months with Max von Pettenkofer at Munich, he went with his friend D. D. Cunningham to Calcutta in 1869, and for the next ten years collaborated with him in the study of cholera and other Indian diseases. In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amœba found in man, and in the same year described Filaria sanguinis hominis. In 1878 he described the non–pathogenic form of trypanosoma found in rata. In 1883 he was made assistant professor of morbid anatomy at Netley, and in 1885 he was appointed honorary secretary of a committee convened by the Secretary of State for India with Sir William Jenner as president to investigate Koch's discovery of the cholera bacillus. He was recommended by Council for the fellowship of the Boyal Society, but died on May 7, 1886, before this honour was conferred upon him. At the time of his death he was carrying out an extensive series of cultures and inoculations of bacilli in the human alimentary canal.
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Dr. Timothy Richards Lewis (1841–1886). Nature 148, 562 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148562a0
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