CHAPTER XLII 

 JOHN H. LOWMAN, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQI3 TO 1914 



THE ninth president of the National Tuberculosis Associa- 

 tion, who was unanimously chosen at the meeting of 1913, 

 was Dr. John H. Lowman, of Cleveland, O. 

 John Henry Lowman was born in Cleveland on October 6, 

 1849, where his ancestors had lived for two generations. His 

 preliminary education was obtained in the public schools of his 

 native city. In 1871 he took the degree of A.B. at Wesleyan 

 University, and in 1874 n ^ s Alma Mater conferred upon him the 

 degree of A.M. In 1873 he graduated in medicine at Wooster. 

 The year following Dr. Lowman served as intern in the Cleveland 

 Charity Hospital. In 1875 he obtained the post of house surgeon 

 to the New York Hospital on Blackwell's Island. In 1876 he 

 received a degree of M.D. at Columbia. While there he was 

 instrumental in starting the first nose and throat dispensary in 

 New York. In 1877 he became Professor of Materia Medica 

 and Therapeutics at Western Reserve University, and in 1889 

 Professor of Medicine, being, during this time, the head of the 

 department. In 1919 he relinquished the professorship of medi- 

 cine in favor of a full-time professor, and from then until his 

 death he occupied the chair of clinical medicine at the Western 

 Reserve University. Thus Dr. Lowman was a professor at the 

 Medical School of Western Reserve University for forty-two 

 years. 



Until 1902 Dr. Lowman's labors were largely confined to the 

 institutional side of medical education, and to the care of his own 

 enormous private practice. In that year he visited the most 

 prominent tuberculosis sanatoria and institutions in Germany 

 and France, and in 1905 attended the International Congress on 

 Tuberculosis held in Paris. Upon his return he conceived the 



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