T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture. The Jones criteria and the challenges of clinimetrics.

T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture. The Jones criteria and the challenges of clinimetrics.

THE MEDICAL IMMORTALITY of being commemorated with an eponym has been achieved by physicians and pathologists who discover or describe some ailment, such as Addison's disease and von Recklinghausen's disease, and by surgeons who have invented operative procedures and instruments. For T. Duckett Jones, an eponymic title was attained with a different achievement: He created a set of rules for mak...

T. Duckett Jones and rheumatic fever in 1986. T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture.

On the Evolution of Our Knowledge of Congenital Malformations of the Heart; the T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture.

M Y WARM association with T. Duckett Jones when he was in charge of the House of the Good Samaritan makes it a genuine pleasure to give the T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture. Although a year younger than I, Duckett was 4 years ahead of me in medical school and by the time I graduated he was established at the House of the Good Samaritan. Duckett offered me my first jobas a histologist to the Go...

The search for host determinants of susceptibility to rheumatic fever: the missing link. T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture.

Thirty years ago, in his presentation "The Natural History of Rheumatic Fever," Dr. T. Duckett Jones said, "It has become the order of the day to consider that both the morbidity and the mortality in rheumatic fever have decreased to such an extent as to relegate the problem to a position of unimportance. " He added, "One may wonder, and reach almost any desired conclusion, about what modifying...

The virtual disappearance of rheumatic fever in the United States: lessons in the rise and fall of disease. T. Duckett Jones memorial lecture.

I AM DEEPLY HONORED to have been invited to give the 1984 T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture. This year marks 40 years since Dr. Jones first published his paper entitled "The Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever."' Jones had the foresight to recognize the importance of standardized diagnostic criteria from three points of view. He wrote: "(1) Otherwise, [without standardized criteria] the incidence of r...