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McDowell, Charles, M.D., 1857-1945: Home

Portrait of Charles McDowell, M.D., 1857-1945

Selected Works by Charles McDowell

"Suggestions on Preventive Medicine in General Practice", presented at the Homeopathic Medial Society of the County of New York, 1903.

"What Vaccination has Accomplished." New York Board of Education. Public Lecture, 1908.

Brief Biographical Sketch

Birth: 1857
Death: 1945

New York Medical College History: ¹

Emeritus Professor, Physiology and Public Health, 1936-1945.
Professor, Physiology and Public Health, 1929-1935.
Head, Department of Physiology, 1921-28.
Professor, Physiology, 1886-1928.
Recording Secretary, Alumni Association, 1886-89.
Demonstrator and Assistant to the Chair, Pathology, 1884-85.
Graduated, 1878.

Additional Information:

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professorship of Philosophy and Religion, Swarthmore College, established, 1952. ²
Graduate, Swarthmore College, 1877. ³

SOURCES:

New York Homeopathic Medical College and New York Medical College Annual Announcements.
Swarthmore College: Endowed Chairs. http://www.swarthmore.edu/cc_endowedchairs.xml. Accessed January 6, 2014.
Swarthmore College. Reports of the President and of the Treasurer for the Year 1956-1957. 1958:55 (8, Part 2): 26.

Other Documents

Endowed Chair: The Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professorship of Philosophy and Religion, established in 1952, Swarthmore College
Family Search: 1940 Census Entry
Family Search: Marriage Certificate
Find A Grave: Charles' and Harriet's Grave Site
One Hundred Years of Medical Progress: A History of the New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals
Description of the College by McDowell, pg. 72-74.
Brief Biography of McDowell, pg. 72-73.
McDowell's Address to Alumni at the Annual Banquet, March 15, 1943, pg. 85-87.

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