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NAME OUCHTERLON 870 OWEN army. He received his early education in Sweden. He came to America alone in 1857, and settled in New York City, where he studied medicine with Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas (q. v.), and completed his medical studies in the med- ical department of the University of the City of New York, whence he graduated in 1860. Dur- ing 1861 he entered the United States Army as surgeon, and achieved notable success in his chosen work. In 1862 he was assigned to hospital work in andMear Louisville. During his hospital service his skill and learning at- tracted much attention, and in 1864 he was elected lecturer on clinical medicine in the University of Louisville. He continued his army service in conjunction with his lecture- ship until the latter part of 1865, when he resigned from the government service and be- gan private practice. He was one of the founders of the Louisville Medical College in which he was professor of materia medica, therapeutics and clinical medicine. He re- signed from the Louisville Medical College in 1876, and for two years had no college asso- ciations. In 1878 he accepted the chair of principles and practice of medicine in the Ken- tucky School of Medicine, which he filled with marked success and ability until 1882, when he resigned to accept the chair of principles and practice of medicine and clinical medicine in the University of Louisville. He filled this chair from 1882 until his death. He had been president of the Medico-Chi- rurgical Society and of the Louisville Obstetri- cal Society. In 1890 he served as president of the Kentucky Medical Society; in 1891 he re- ceived from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences the Linnaean Gold Medal; in 1891, in recognition of his marked ability and renown. King Oscar of Sweden made him a Knight of the Royal Order of the Polar Star. In 1892 the University of Notre Dame conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He was an honorary member of the Michigan State Medical So- ciety, and had also served as vice-president of the American Medical Association. In 1894, in recognition of his ability and his devotion to his church. Pope Leo the XIII made Dr. Ouchterlony a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. As a diagnostician he was preeminent. His extremely wide medical knowledge coupled with persistent and deep study and constant investigation gave him an extremely keen insight into the science of medicine. His contributions to medical literature were numerous and important. Perhaps one of his best known was a treatise in 1887 on the "Preventative Treatment of Tuberculosis." While he did not intend this to be exhaustive, it covered in full the delicate character of this morbid process, and with rare precision pointed out many of the present modes of attack on this disease. His studies were not confined to medicine alone, for he was diEtinguished as a scientist and a Hnguist, both here and abroad. He spoke five modern languages fluently and was thoroughly conversant with Greek and Latin. In 1863 he married Kate Grainger and had one son. Osc.R W. Doyle. Med. Rec, N. Y., 1905. vol. Ixviii. Ouvriere, Felix, See Pascalis-Ouvriere, p. 894. Owen, David Dale (1807-1860) David Dale Owen, geologist, had for father the well-known philanthropist celebrated for his cooperative experiments first in Scotland and later at New Harmony, Indiana. His mother was the eldest daughter of David Dale, merchant and Lord Provost of Glasgow. David was born at Braxfield House, New Lanark, Scotland, June 24, 1807. His early training included a course of archi- tectural drawing and carpentering and a classical course at the Lanark Grammar School. This was followed by three years at the celebrated institution of Emmanuel Fellen- berg, near Berne, Switzerland. David and his brother, Richard, selected chemistry in addi- tion to the usual course and on returning to Scotland in September, 1826, studied under Dr. Andrew Ure at the Andersonian Institute in Glasgow. Soon after they left Liverpool in a sailing vessel, passed through the West India Islands and reached New Orleans about the last of December and arrived at New Harmony to join their father early in January, 1828. Here they began to practise with the chemical apparatus they had brought from Glasgow, and the two brothers worked to- gether until 1831, when David returned to Europe to further qualify himself in chemistry and geology and worked under Dr. Turner at the London University. On returning the following year he fell a victim to Asiatic cholera and on recovery began to study medi- cine at Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, with a view to improve himself in anatomy and physiology, as essential aids in the study of paleontqlogy. During the summers of these years Alex- ander Maclure, brother of the noted geologist, William Maclure, engaged Dr. Owen to arrange the extensive collection of minerals and fossils made by his brother and to dis- tribute specific suites to colleges, the residue to form the nucleus of a museum. To this