At the time of his death he was about fifty-seven years of age. He had reached the maturity of his powers, and with the consciousness of having accomplished one good work was ready for further original investigations in practical medicine. A thought that had occupied him very much toward the end of his life was the possibility of a mechanical method of treating pneumonia. He had made a series of experiments on the lungs, and many clinical observations with regard to the possibility of producing over-inflation by mechanical measures. He confided to one of his physician friends, who had been closest to him during life, that he hoped thus to secure a method of treating pneumonia successfully. This, after all, is the most serious problem in present-day medicine. Our death-rate from pneumonia is at least as high now as it was a century ago. O'Dwyer started from the observation that those suffering from emphysema seldom develop true pneumonia. And he hoped [{356}] to prevent the progress of the disease, or to abort it in its inception, by producing artificial emphysema for the time being. Had he lived, it seems not unlikely that we would have had further original work of a high order from him.

Though of Irish descent, Dr. O'Dwyer illustrated very well the expression that was used of the English nobility who went to Ireland in Elizabeth's time, and who are said to have become "more Irish than the Irish themselves." O'Dwyer became an American of the Americans. He believed in meeting Americans on their own ground, cultivating their acquaintance, and making them realize the worth of new citizens of the republic by showing them how sincere was the patriotism of their recently admitted compatriots.

Dr. O'Dwyer was in everything the model of a Christian gentleman, and an exemplary member of the great humanitarian profession whose charitable opportunities he knew how to find and take advantage of at every turn in life. The American medical profession has never had a more worthy model of all that can be expected from physicians in their philanthropic duties toward suffering humanity, nor a better exemplar of what Christian manhood means in the widest sense of that expressive term. With an inventive genius of a high order, that gave him a prominent place in a great generation and that has stamped his name on the roll of medical fame for all time, there were united the simple faith, the earnest purpose, the clear-sighted judgment and the feeling kindness--those supreme qualities of head and heart that will always secure for him a prominent place in the small group of great medical men.

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INDEX.

Allbutt, [138] Allison, [188] Alternate generation, [238] America to Jenner, [102] Ampere, [19] Aneurism, [43] Aneurism of aorta, [45], [203] Angelo Michel, [33] Angina pectoris, [89] Animal electricity, [119] Antivaccination, [100] Aortic aneurism, [45], [203] Aortic valves, [202] Appendicitis, [285] Arago, [299] Archimedes, [50] Asiatic cholera, [189] Aspergillus, [239] Atmospheric electricity, [121] Attending physician, [202] Auenbrugger
and Laennec, [66-72] beneficence, [78];
cases, [79];
neglect, [69-73];
preface, [67] Auscultation, mediate, [145] Avocation, [54]
B
Bacon, [324] Baron, Dr., [96] Bassi, Laura [126] Bayle, [163] Bedside instruction, [57] Bell, [233] Bernard
statue, [272];
honors, [286];
musical comedy, [275];
poverty, [273-275];
succeeds Flourens, [286] Benedict XIII, [48] Benedict XIV, [48] Berzelius, [244] Bichat, [153] Biological succession [306] Biot, [299] Birrell Augustine, [107] Blushing, [283] Boerhaave, [49] Bologna, [35-37] Bologna sausage, [34] Bonn, [231] Bouillaud, [148] Bouchut, intubation, [338] Boyle, Robt., [306] Breadth of education, [226] Breton
peasant's faith, [294];
peasant woman, [294] Bribery and union, [197] Brittany, [138] Bronchitis, chronic, [46] Broussais, [139-152] Brown, Dr. Jno., [270] Browne, Sir Thos., [114] Bruecke, [226] Butt, Isaac, [196] Butyric acid, [304]
C
Cabanis, [286] Cameron, Sir Chas., [167] Cancer, removal, [46] Carbonic oxide [284] Carlyle, [107] Carriers of disease, [309] Caspar, [219] Catarina Sforza, [33] Cavendish, [19] Cavities, [65] Cell doctrine, [255], [261-264] Cellulose, [300] Charité, La, [152] Chassaignac, [131] Chauffard, [164] Chaussier's tubes, [337] [{358}] Chauvinism, [235] Chemistry, organic, [296] Cheyne, [170] Cheyne-Stokes, [168], [185], [194] Chicken cholera, [309] Cholera, epidemic, [327] Cirrhosis, [152] Cirrhosis of lungs, [206] Cisalpine republic, [128] Classical training, [227], [288] Claude Bernard, [42] Clement XIII, [48] Cline, Dr., [99] Clinical teaching, [57], [178] Collège de France, [271] Common sense and the beautiful, [198] Comparative pathology, [45] Confidence in medicines, [180] Conservatism, [288] Consumption
and alcohol, [174];
and city life, [174];
curable, [192];
outdoor life, [193] Contagion of tuberculosis, [46] Contemporary popularity, [253] Cook, Dr. Win, [48] Corrigan
and Sunday closing, [210];
as a consultant, [206];
as a teacher, [208];
disease, [15], [200];
honors, [209];
member of parliament, [214];
physician in ordinary, [212];
pulse, [168];
practice, [201], [205] Corvisart, [74], [142] Cowpox, [94] Croup, [329] Cuckoo, [93] Cullen, [188] Curare, [284]
D
Da Costa, [83] Daguerre, [260] Dalkey, [211] Dante, [131] Danube capricious, [64] Darwin, [254] Dean Swift, [167] De Haen, [58];
writings, [69] De Maria, [131] Desault, [336];
tubes, [337] Desgenettes, [157] Diabetes, [279] Diastases, [287] Dictionnaire des sciences méd., [153] Dieffenbach, [219] Digestion, [278];
and emotion, [282] Dignity of medicine, [194] Diphtheria fatality, [329];
antitoxin, [345] Discoveries rejected, [14] Discovery in distans, [18];
wine of, [298] Dissymmetrical forces, [301] Dissymmetry and universe, [302], [303] Distinction, living and non-living, [300] Doctor of medicine and philosophy, [37] Do not think, investigate, [92] Dom Pedro II, [315] Dublin Zoological Garden, [211] Du Bois-Reymond, [242] Duchesse de Berri, [155] Duclaux, [302] Ductless glands, [281] Ducts of Müller, [233] Dust and life, [306] Dyspepsia, nervous, [282]
E
Earth worms, carriers of disease, [309] Edinburgh, [208] Education,
classical, [288];
rounded, [289] Eggs and oxygen, [258] Electricity,
animal, [119];
atmospheric, [121] Elsner, Dr. Henry L., [137] Emanuel III, [48] Emphysema and pneumonia, [355] Empress Eugenie, [319] Encyclopedists, [115] Eustachius, [32] Eyerel, [74]
F
Fallopius, [32] Faraday, [19] Fat digestion, [277] Father Morgagni, S. J., [50] Father of German medicine, [217] Father of pathology, [29] Fatty heart, [192] [{359}] Fermentations, [304];
and disease, [306] Ferments, [287] Fever, nature and treatment, [205] Flacherie, [307] Flint, [144], [150], [166] Flourens, [286] Foolishness of materialism, [318] Forli, [33] Foundling Asylum (N. Y.), [328] Franco-Prussian War, [312] Franklin, [19];
anticipated, [123] French Revolution, [115];
Academy of Physicians, [286] Frog dancing-master, [122] Froriep, [219] Froude, [134]
G
Gaelic movement, [167] Gairdner, [30] Galeazzi, [116] Galen, [35] Galileo, [244] Galvani, [19];
Mme., [117], [120];
dancing frogs, [21];
the physician, [125];
medal, [130] Gases and eggs, [259] German
students at Padua, [40];
decorations returned, [313];
rabies, [313], [314] Girardin, St. Marc, [275] Glycogen, [281] Goerres, [223] Goethe, [227] Gold dust of time, [240] Graves
family, [169];
as a traveler, [169];
fed fevers, [172];
perfect teacher, [177];
remedies, [177];
last moments, [185] Grease in horses, [95] Guerin, [131]
H
Hahn, S. J., [286] Haller, [29];
and Müller, [244] Harvey, [28], [35], [104] Haüy, [116] Heart percussion, [63] Heat
production, [281];
regulation, [282] Heberden, [89] Heliostat and growth, [302] Helmholtz, [247] Henle, [200] Herter, Dr. Christian, [311], [320] Hibernation, [92] Hippocrates, [35], [142], [336];
succussion, [72] Hirsch, Baroness, [315] History, [12] Holme, Sir Edw., [95] Hunter, [90], [120] Huxley, [20] Hydatids, [151]
I
Ideals, [294];
in life, [320] Il Morgagni, [50] Imagination, [284] Indians, American, and Jenner, [103] Infinite and supernatural, [316] Institutions and men, [217] Internal secretion, [280] Intubation
experiments, [330];
first, [332];
for chronic ills, [342];
history, [335];
improvement, [333];
studies, [334];
tubes, [331] Inventum novum, [61] Investigating spirit, [16] Irene, Sister, [348] Irish
aristocracy, [197];
College of Physicians, [210] Italy's
leadership in medicine, [31];
medical schools, [32]
J
Jacobi, [341] Jardin des Plantes, [273] Jefferson, [104] Jenner, [77];
and Indians, [103];
epigrams, [93];
honors conferred, [102];
Hunter, [91];
Mrs. Jenner, [109];
Jenner's patience, [91];
personality, [105];
son inoculated, [93] Jesuit education, [224-273]
K
Koch, [135] Kühne, [278] Kulturkampf, [249] [{360}]L
La Cellule, [266] Laennec's
character, [156];
in practice, [161];
preface, [154] Laic, saint, [295] Lamarck, [116] Lamennais, [138] Lancet on Corrigan, [207], [212] Lancisi, [57] Laplace, [116] Lavater, [227] Lavoisier, [244] Layard, [184] Lieberkühn, [238] Liebig, [262], [304] Liège, [266] Limitations of genius, [203] Lister, [312] Liston, [338] Littré, [294] Liver sugar, [280] Lough Corrib, [197] Louise Lateau, [267] Louvain, [264] Ludwig, [71]
M
Magendie, [276], [283] Maisonneuve, [139] Malpighi, [32], [233] Manzolini, Mme., [127] Maria Theresa, [23], [80] Mayer, [22] Maynooth, [207], [212] Mead, Sir Richard, [49] Meckel, [42] Meckel's Archiv, [230] Medical
charities bill, [190];
education, [181];
progress, [19] Medicine
an art, [178];
and the public, [195];
faith, [24];
in Italy, [31] Ménière's symptoms, [354] Merbach, [65] Microcosm, [114] Microtome, [256] Milk in diarrhea, [175] Mitscherlich, [297] Molecular forces, [301] Mondino, [32], [34] Moore, Sir Jno., [167], [200] Morgagni
daughters nuns, [49];
basic idea, [14];
literary light, [23];
long life, [31];
method, [30];
popularity, [48] Mouth-gag, [333] Mozart, [81] Müller,
a priest of nature, [247];
as a teacher, [245], [257];
and Aristotle, [224];
education, [218];
discoveries, [232];
distinctions, [244];
ducts, [233];
father, [222];
handbook, [234];
introspection, [231];
methods, [237];
monument, [249];
mother, [223];
muscular control, [229];
panegyric, [220];
personality, [246];
students, [246];
translates plate, [224];
vivisection, [225], [235] Muscle sugar, [281]
N
Napoleon III, [286];
judgment, [75], [143] Nasse, [228] Nature, study, [108] Necker hospital, [143] Nervous reflex, [42] Newman, [216] Newton, [244] Normandy, [140] Northrup, [349];
O'Dwyer's personality, [350] Not many patients, [181] Nurses, trained, [171]
O
Observation, [181] O'Connell, [196] O'Dwyer
Americanism, [356];
birth, boyhood, [326];
careful prognosis, [343];
cholera volunteer, [327];
clinical experience, [339];
devotion to duty, [344];
discouragements, [340];
domestic life, [353];
feeling for children, [345];
originality, [335];
patient work, [328], [339];
resignation, [354];
sensitiveness, [352] Oersted, [19], [116] Ohm, [19] Olfactory nerve, [42] [{361}] Opposition
to vaccination, [101];
to science, [22] Organotherapy, [281] Original research, [13] Origins in electricity, [19] Osler, [14], [252] Otis, Dr. Edw. O., [82]
P
Padua, 1000 German students, [40] Paine's Age of Reason, [186] Pancreas, [277] Paradise Lost, [41] Parasites, [238] Paratartrates, [297] Pasteur,
advice to young men, [321];
and money, [319];
chemist, [296];
faith, [294];
ideals, [295];
illness, [311];
last moments, [318];
letters, [317];
monument, [293];
obsequies, [315];
prayer in laboratory, [318];
tenderness, [317] Pathology, comparative, [45] Pebrine, [307] Pepsin, [262] Percussion, [62] Petrie, [198] Pharmacy, old-time, [274] Phila. College of Physicians, [144] Philosophy, a little, [126] Phipps Institute, [55] Physiology and Psychology, [286] Pilgrim's Progress, [41] Pindar, [50] Pinel, [142] Pneumonia, [355] Polarization, [299] Poor patients, [214];
Corrigan, [213];
Galvani, [125];
Graves, [171];
Laennec, [156];
Stokes, [190] Positivism, [295] Practical teaching, [183] Psychologus physiologus, [249] Pulse, intermittence, [45]
R
Rabies, [313], [314] Radot, M., [301] Ragpicker of science, [283] Ratio medendi, [70] Ray-fish, [124] Read, Dr. C. A. L., [219] Red blood cell, [285] Religion
and science, [255];
and medicine, [24] Religious training, [108] Removal of stomach, [279] Respiration, [285] Retzius, [239] Rheumatism and the heart, [89] Richardson, Benj. Ward, [36], [40], [153] Richman, [123] Roger, [149] Rosalie, Sister, [341] Rothschild, [315] Roux, [316] Royal Irish Academy, [198] Rudolphi, [230], [234] Ruskin, [20] Ruysch, [49], [233]
S
Saintignon, Life of Laennec, [157] Salivary nerves, [277] Sap temperatures, [92] Schenkelton, [62] Schlegels, August and Friedrich, [59] Schoenlein, [219], [238] Scholar in medicine, [84] Schott treatment anticipated, [193] Schwann
and professorships, [267];
devotion to science, [256];
friendships, [268];
handiness, [260];
scientific work, [265] Science and religion, [24], [255] Scott, Sir Walter, [187] Seats and causes of disease, [40] Sense, a new, [148] Silkworm
diseases, [306],
industry, [307] Sisters Irene and Rosalie, [341], [348] Skepticism, medical, [180] Skoda, [61] Sources of democracy, [316] Spalding, [166], [292] Spanish hospital, Vienna, [60] Specialization, [289] Spigelius, [32] Splenic fever, [308] [{362}] Spontaneous generation, [262], [287], [309];
of disease, [263] Spores, [311] Stereochemistry, [299] Stethoscope, [147];
a toy, [16] St. Francis of Assisi, [131] St. Francis of Sales, [117] Still madness, [79] Stokes, [136], [186];
character, [200];
distinctions, [199];
Margaret, [198];
Sir Wm. Jr., [198];
wife, [199] Stoll, [74] Sugar absorption, [279] Sydenham, [138] Sympathetic nerves, [43], [282]
T
Tartrates, [297] The chimney sweep, [80] Theorists, [20] Theory and observation, [20] Theriaque, [274] Thompson, [187] Tissue-therapy, [281] Titian, [35] Torpedo fish, [124] Tracheotomy, [329];
failure, [330] Trousseau, [15], [176], [200], [238] Trudeau, [55] Truth in medicine, [17] Tuberculosis, [173], [192] Tufnell treatment anticipated, [44] Turner, [170] Typhoid and typhus, [188], [205]
U
United Irishmen, [186] Unselfish devotion, [25] Uric acid, [300] Utility and ideals, [198]
V
Vaccination and measles, [102];
day, [97];
first successful, [98] Valsalva, [36] Van Swieten, [58], [60];
writings, [69] Vasomotor nerves, [282] Venesection, [47], [158] Venetian patricians, [48] Vesalius, [32], [35] Vicq d'Azyr, [286] Vienna
school, [15], [56];
general hospital, [56] Villemin, [135] Virago of Forli, [33] Virchow, [29], [206], [219], [220];
Virchow and Müller, [239] Vital force, [218], [242], [288], [299] Vogel, [71] Volta, [19]
W
Walshe, [144] Wardrop's operation, [204] Washington, [337] Watson, Jno., [338] Werner, [80] Woehler, [218] Women at Italian Universities, [126], [127] Woodhead, G. Sims, [55]
Y
Young Germany, [263] Young men
discoverers, [14], [15], [16];
in biology, [16];
electricity, [19];
in medicine, [201]
Z
Zois, Baron, [80] Zoological Society, [211]