Buffalo medical journal . tes, Tuesday evening,February 6, 1906, the Son of man came and took away the spiritof George Ryerson Fowler, and he was at peace! George Ryerson Fowler, son of Thomas W. and Sarah J.(Carmen) Fowler, was born in Brooklyn December 25, after his birth, the family removed to Jamaica L. I., wherehe received his earlier education in the public schools. At theage of 14 he left school and home without permission, for thepurpose of enlisting as a drummer-boy for service in the CivilWar. At New York he was overtaken, brought back, and re-stored to his studies. A year
Buffalo medical journal . tes, Tuesday evening,February 6, 1906, the Son of man came and took away the spiritof George Ryerson Fowler, and he was at peace! George Ryerson Fowler, son of Thomas W. and Sarah J.(Carmen) Fowler, was born in Brooklyn December 25, after his birth, the family removed to Jamaica L. I., wherehe received his earlier education in the public schools. At theage of 14 he left school and home without permission, for thepurpose of enlisting as a drummer-boy for service in the CivilWar. At New York he was overtaken, brought back, and re-stored to his studies. A year or more later he became a teleg-rapher in the office of the Jamacia railway, and during an ac-cident which happened soon afterwaj-d manifested such interestin the work of the surgeons that it is believed his resolve wasthen made to become a surgeon himself ; at all events, in the courseof time he entered the office of a surgeon as a student of further pursued his studies at Bellevue Hospital Medical 452 EDITORIAL. College, from which he received his doctorate degree in February1871. Dr. Fowler at once established himself in Brooklyn andhis professional practice developed with almost phenomenal rap-idity. He was appointed very soon a member of the staff of thecentral dispensary, serving in this capacity for two years. It wasrecognised soon that his skill as a surgeon amounted almost togenius, and his services were eagerly sought by hospitals, both asan attending and visiting surgeon. In 1877 he became one of thefounders and the first secretary of the Brooklyn Anatomical Soci-ety and two years later he was chosen its president. He was alsoassociate editor of the societys publication, then called Annalsof the Anatomical and Surgical Societv and later the Annals ofSurgery. Upon the organisation of the Bushvvdck and East? Brooklyn Dispensary in 18T8 he became its first visiting surgeonand until 1887 he was the presiding officer of its .medical staff,when he w
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