A history of the Reading Pathological Society / by Jamieson B. Hurry.

  • Hurry, Jamieson B. (Jamieson Boyd), 1857-1930.
Date:
1909
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Credit: A history of the Reading Pathological Society / by Jamieson B. Hurry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Session Uwent^^Etgbt {A.D. 1868-9.) ♦jg^ the death of Dr. Charles Cowan (jfig. V.). its Medical President, on November 29, 1868, the Society sustained a grievous loss. But happily, as has so often happened, prima avulso non deficit alter, and an able successor was found in Dr. Woodhouse. Few provincial physicians have attained a wider reputation than did Dr. Charles Cowan (1). After taking degrees at Edinburgh sumina cum laiide and at Paris (where he was interne for several years and where he made the acquaintance of Louis, whose work Traite de la Phthisie he translated, Dr. Cowan settled at Bath, and soon afterwards migrated to Reading, becoming Physician to the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Earnest of purpose, devoted to his profession, eloquent, conscientious, he acquired an extensive consulting practice in this neighbourhood, due in no small measure to his skill in physical diagnosis, a subject on which he pubhshed a Bedside Manual in 1844. On religious questions he was a strenuous advocate of Evangelical doctrines, contributing frequently to the press in their defence. A volume entitled Thoughts on Satanic Influence, or Modern Spiritualism Considered, appeared in 1853 (2). For many years he took a keen interest in the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (now the British Medical Association), before which he delivered the Retrospective Address at the Northampton Meeting in 1844 (3). Indeed, he greatly contributed to the (1) A lengthy obituary appears in the British Medical Journal, 1868, ii., p. 649. (2) Lancet, 1854, i., p. 13. (3) Trans. Prov. M. and S. Assoc., New Series, i. (1845), P- i-