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tice did not give him time for the minute and intensive research 

 work upon this subject which men who are devoting their whole 

 lives exclusively to the study and prevention of tuberculosis are 

 able to do. 



The accompanying relatively short list of contributions to the 

 tuberculosis literature does not by any means represent all he has 

 written on the subject nor does it include the many lectures he 

 had carefully prepared and delivered on behalf of the cause. 

 Characteristic of the man's modesty is what Mrs. Lowman wrote 

 when the author asked her kind assistance to complete the 

 biography: "Dr. Lowman did not feel that he had written any- 

 thing in the real sense of the word, and he always looked forward 

 with the keenest anticipation to the time when he could with- 

 draw from his overbusy life and spend a few years in contempla- 

 tion and study." In sending this short list of contributions and 

 apologizing for the delay, Mrs. Lowman added : 



"However, I do think also that half unconsciously I have been influenced 

 by a feeling that Dr. Lowman would not have called these fragmentary bits 

 of work writing, in any real sense, nor a true indication of his feeling in the 

 matter. About seventeen or eighteen years ago, when he was trying to stir 

 up a more effective and general interest in Ohio in the combat against tubercu- 

 losis, he gave a great many talks and lectures before colleges, schools, church 

 societies, settlements, labor unions, and factory operatives. I have some of 

 these addresses in type-written form. He put a vast amount of energy and 

 earnestness into informing the general public concerning their duties and 

 responsibilities in regard to this common enemy, and he succeeded in arousing 

 the kind of interest which caused people to go to work at the problem and to 

 persist in their endeavors." 



All the charming qualities and fine traits of mind and heart, 

 so well described by Dr. Gerstenberger, will long be remembered 

 by all his co-workers of the National Tuberculosis Association 

 who had the privilege of knowing Dr. Lowman intimately, and 

 his memory will be cherished by all his friends and countless 

 patients. Dr. Livingston Farrand, who was the executive secre- 

 tary of the National Tuberculosis Association for nine years, 

 and who is now president of Cornell University, speaks of Dr. 

 Lowman as "one of the best and finest men that the medical 

 profession of America has known," and goes on to say of him, "Of 



