BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 



OF 



TIMOTHY RICHARDS LEWIS, M.B., 



SUEGBON-MAJOB, ASSISTANT-PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY AT THE ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL, NETLBY. 



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The comparatively short life and public services of this distinguished physiologist and 

 pathologist call for more than a passing notice ; for the Army Medical Department, its 

 Medical School, and Medical Science sustained an irreparable loss by his death on May 

 7th, 1886. His loss was so unexpected, that its magnitude could not at once be realised. 

 He was gradually becoming a very centre of scientific influence, and a source of inspira- 

 tion for earnest work as a teacher, and of genuine research in his position as Assistant- 

 Professor of Pathology at Netley. Of his aims and his methods of work in this 

 official position (which he had held for only three years) we have now but the memory 

 left — a memory which we would not willingly let die, for he exercised in it a most 

 beneficial influence, and accomplished a great amount of work by sheer strength of 

 personal character, having ever before him the ideal of the higher tone of real work. 

 He was, indeed, one of those men " who go on and on working, and full of work and 

 vigour for the Truth's sake ; " and he imbued the minds of those he taught with this 

 same keen love of work. Many friends also, young and old, here and in India, looked 

 up to him for advice in the practical affairs of life (other than professional), relying 

 on the soundness and impartiality of his judgment, his sterling candour, and great 

 common sense. The life-history of such a man, and the work he did, is worthy of 

 more than a passing notice for the example it teaches ; as, pursuing a lofty ideal he 

 died at the early age of forty-four, almost before the scientific medical world knew 

 what it possessed in his life. 



Timothy Richards Lewis was born at Crinow, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, on October 

 31st, 1841. He was educated at the Reverend' J. Morris's school in the same town, 

 and, at the age of nineteen, proceeded to London to study medicine. He entered 

 the German Hospital at Dalston, where he availed himself of the excellent opportu- 

 nities afforded of learning the Grerman language, of which he acquired that intimate 

 knowledge which served him so well in his subsequent scientific career. He had, by 

 this time, also acquired a good knowledge of practical chemistry, and became an 



