John Crighton Bramwell FRCP FRCPE (1889–1976) was a British cardiologist, professor of medicine, and one of the founders of cardiology as a specialist subject in the UK.
After his return to active duty, he was posted to the 23rd Division, 12th Army Corps in France and then in Italy as part of the Italian Expeditionary Force.
[4] At the University of Manchester's department of physiology from 1919 to 1923 Bramwell collaborated with Archibald Hill on several papers on pulse wave velocity and arterial elasticity[1] and taught clinical medicine.
[4] In 1923 Bramwell graduated MD from the University of Manchester and was elected one of the first four Rockefeller Travelling Fellows of the Medical Research Council.
[1] He gave in 1937 the Lumleian Lectures on Arterial pulse in health and disease and in 1956 the Harveian Oration on Practice, teaching and research.
[4] Throughout his professional life Bramwell was a tireless worker, and published on cardiovascular topics, pulse wave velocity, aneurysmal dilatation of the left auricle, bundle branch block, quinidine therapy, the heart of athletes, gallop rhythm, the alcoholic heart and on blood pressure and myocardial infarction.