Bethel Boyd Vincent Lyon notes on the lectures of Thomas Boggs

Item

Identifier: 10a 398

Scope and Contents

One volume (144 leaves) of notes on clinical microscopy lectures and lab work given by Dr. Thomas Boggs at Johns Hopkins University. Lectures are dated from October 5, 1905 to May 22, 1906. Notes are often written on both sides of each leaf and contain diagrams. One leaf of typescript, Third Year Examination, Clinical Microscopy, inserted.

Dates

1905 - 1906

Creator

Lyon, Bethuel Boyd Vincent (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Bethuel Boyd Vincent Lyon was born in Erie, Pa. to George Armstrong and Rose (Vincent) Lyon on March 20, 1880. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1907 and served his internship in Philadelphia at German Hospital, later renamed Lankenau, where he established the first ever clinic devoted to the study of gastroenterology in 1910.

Lyon was appointed to the faculty of Jefferson Medical College in 1910 as a Demonstrator of Medicine. He held several positions there, rising to the level of Clinical Professor of Medicine upon his retirement in 1946. Lyon founded a gastroenterological out-patient clinic at Jefferson that became well-known for its study of biliary tract diseases.

A pioneer in gastroenterological research, Lyon introduced the procedure of non-surgicial biliar drainage to diagnose and treat biliary tract problems. Using this new diagnostic procedure Lyon was able to demonstrate bile color sequence and normal and abnormal cytology in the biliary tract. His major works include Atlas on Biliary Drainage Microscopy (1935) and Non-surgical Drainage of the Gall Tract (1923).

Lyon was professionally active in the American Gastroenterological Association and served as its president in 1934. He also was a Fellow of the College of Physicians, elected in 1914.

During World War I, Lyon served in the Medical Corps of the Navy at the Naval Hospital at Brest, France from 1917-1919.

Dr. Lyon was plagued by ill health later in life. He died of coronary thrombosis on May 20, 1953, in Washington, D.C.

Thomas Richmond Boggs was born in Memphis, Tennessee on October 2, 1875. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1897-1898, before entering the Medical Department of Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated in 1901. He later furthered his studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany in 1903. Dr. Boggs served as physician-in-chief to the Baltimore City Hospital at Bay View from 1911-1938. Meanwhile he held the position of Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and had visiting physician status at its Hospital. In the first World War, Boggs was decorated for his service as the chief medical officer of Base Hospital No. 18 (Johns Hopkins Unit) with the A.E.F. in France. Later he served as a colonel in the medical reserve corps and as a consultant to the Veterans’ Bureau in Washington. Professionally, Boggs was an active member and past president of the Association of American Physicians. He also was a member of the American Medical Association and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Boggs married Kate Newell Doggett in November 1928. Boggs died on September 2, 1938 in Fredericksburg, Va.