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Dean De Witt Lewis was born on August 11, 1874, in Kewanee, Illinois, United States, the only child of Lyman Wright Lewis, a merchant, and Virginia Winifred (Cully) Lewis. His paternal grandfather was a Baptist minister.
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Dean De Witt Lewis was born on August 11, 1874, in Kewanee, Illinois, United States, the only child of Lyman Wright Lewis, a merchant, and Virginia Winifred (Cully) Lewis. His paternal grandfather was a Baptist minister.
Young Lewis attended Lake Forest (Ill. ) College, graduating, B. A. , in 1895. He then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City but transferred the next year to Rush Medical College in Chicago, where he received the M. D. degree in 1899. Then he spend a year's internship at Chicago's Cook County Hospital.
After his studies Lewis returned to Rush Medical College (which had become affiliated with the University of Chicago) as assistant in anatomy. There he became interested in the process of vital staining of tissues and used it to demonstrate the microscopic changes and proliferation of the chromophile cells that take place in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland in a patient suffering from acromegaly. In 1903, after spending six months working in Leipzig with the renowned anatomist Werner Spalteholz, he was advanced to instructor. Two years later Lewis moved to the department of surgery, where he advanced through the academic ranks to professor in 1919. In addition to giving popular courses in surgical anatomy and operative surgery, he carried on a large private practice and served as attending surgeon at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago.
In 1917, following America's entry into World War I, Lewis was commissioned as a major in the Army Medical Corps and organized Base Hospital 13 from the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital. He took the unit to France in May 1918 and subsequently headed several evacuation hospitals that specialized in reconstructive and neurological surgery. After his discharge in 1919, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
It is said that in the five years after 1920 Dean Lewis was offered every major vacant surgical chair in the country. In January 1925 he became professor of surgery at the University of Illinois, but six months later he moved to Baltimore to fill the post formerly held by William S. Halsted as professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and surgeon-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He retained this post until illness forced his retirement in 1939.
Lewis's publications include A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy (1904), written with Lewellys F. Barker, and a large number of papers dealing with the ductless glands, methods of transplanting nerve and bone, reconstructive surgery, acromegaly, the role of sex hormones in tumor growth, and ethylene as an anesthetic, a method he helped its discoverer, Dr. Arno B. Luckhardt, introduce into clinical use. Lewis was one of the founders and the first editor (1920 - 1940) of the Archives of Surgery. He also edited the International Surgical Digest (1926 - 1941) and the widely used eleven-volume set, Practice of Surgery (1932). He served as president of the American Medical Association in 1933-1934. In 1938, on one of his many lecture trips, Lewis suffered a cerebrovascular disturbance from which he never fully recovered. He died three years later at his home in Baltimore and was buried in New Cathedral Cemetery.
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He belonged to numerous professional societies.
Lewis was extremely well read in both medicine and the humanities and interested in music and sports. His keen memory and broad knowledge of the medical literature made him an effective and stimulating teacher. The famous Friday noon surgical clinics for the Johns Hopkins medical students were lively, if somewhat intimidating, sessions. A warm, witty, and jovial speaker, Lewis was in great demand at medical meetings all over the country.
On November 26, 1903, Lewis married Pearl Miller of St. Anthony, Idaho. She died in 1926, and on December 26, 1927, he married Norene Kinney of Girard, Ohio. Their three children were Julianne, Dean De Witt, and Mary Elizabeth.