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In 1893 he was destined to be in Rome again as one of the vice- 

 presidents of the International Congress of Medicine there assem- 

 bled. He went to Italy in September, 1918, to act as Medical 

 Director of the American Red Cross Tuberculosis Unit, and to 

 establish not only a cordial relationship with the Italian physi- 

 cians, but also an understanding of the purpose of the Commis- 

 sion which would make secure and unhampered the cooperation 

 that is so essential to success in such undertakings. His physical 

 condition, however, undermined by the vicissitudes of the ocean 

 voyage and war-time continental travel, and seriously affected 

 by an attack of influenza contracted soon after reaching Rome, 

 largely prevented him from carrying out his mission. He died 

 in New York city on January 23, 1919. 

 To quote again from the "Appreciation": 



"Dr. Lowman was a man of rare ability and in every sense a gentleman. 

 He was a generous friend, a kindly and sound advisor, and a source of comfort 

 and support to countless others besides the members of his immediate family. 

 When his Samaritan efforts bore fruits he was pleased and grateful, and when 

 they did not, his philosophical mind saw and understood the reasons and his 

 big heart forgave and forgot. 



"His modesty hid from view many of his accomplishments. Some 70 

 sonnets were written by him in work and play. As an essayist he had no equal 

 in the medical profession of Cleveland. His memorial addresses on Gustav 

 C. E. Weber, Edward Fitch Gushing, Dudley P. Allen, and Henry Swift Upson 

 are classics. He was the cultured physician of Cleveland, beloved by many 

 in all walks of life, both rich and poor. The variety of his interests and ac- 

 complishments served but to make him more completely and entirely the 

 physician and to develop in him that broader view and deeper understanding 

 of life which made of him so wise a counselor and so sound a diagnostician. 

 In every sense he was a physician of the highest type." 



Dr. Lowman was a speaker of no small ability. By the clear 

 way in which he set forth the essentials in popular tuberculosis 

 work, he knew how to hold his audience spell-bound and to show 

 them their duties in the fight against the Great White Plague. 



In Cleveland he was probably best known among the general 

 lay public as an expert on tuberculosis. He realized that he had 

 done more than all the rest of the profession in that city to stimu- 

 late interest in the fight against this disease, but at the same time 

 he knew that his other activities and the duties of a heavy prac- 



