Department of clinical research established · Atrial fibrillation and the circus movement · Mechanism and Graphic Registration of the Heart Beat · Experimental and clinical studies with quinidine

Abstract

When the war was over, Walter Fletcher wrote to the Dean at UCH Medical School in December 1918 saying that the Medical Research Committee would like to re-establish a department in the school ‘having as its primary object the advancement of knowledge of the cardiovascular system’.^486, This was agreed to and in January 1919 Lewis was appointed a full Physician to the hospital and also Physician-in-Charge of the Cardiographic Department. This was a hospital service department, like the X-ray department, but his research work had the separate MRC title, ‘Department of Clinical Research’.