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NAME PASCALIS-OUVRIERE 894 PATTERSON Dr. Parvin was an eloquent lecturer, an earnest teacher and held in high regard by his pupils. A. G. Drury. Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc, 1899, vol. 24, 511-514. "In Memoriam" of Dr. Parvin, Wm. H. Parrish, M. D., Philadelphia. Amer. Jour. Obstet., 1918, vol. Ix-xvin, 607. Pascalis-Ouvriere, Felix A. (17S0P-1833) Felix Pascalis-Ouvriere, commonly called Pascalis, a Frenchman, born in Provence about 1750, and a graduate of Montpellier, went to St. Domingo, where he practised until driven out by the Revolution of 1793. He then came to America and lived in Philadelphia and later for nearly thirty years in New York. He was co-editor of the Medical Repository, and wrote on j'ellow fever in 1796; again in 1798 he wrote a book of 182 pages on the epidemic which prevailed in Philadelphia in 1797. He wrote about the "malignant yellow fever in the city of New York in the summer and autumnal months of 1819" (52 pp.), with a map and a careful study of the locations of the disease, with a view to ascertaining the method of its transmission. A work appeared in 1823 (pp. 167) on the dangers of interment in large cities, and customs, laws and regulations regarding burial. In The Philadelphia Medical Museum, con- ducted by John Redman Coxe (q. v.) in 1805, there are two papers from his pen, one on "Syphilitic agonorrhoea," and the other an "Account of an abscess of the liver terminat- ing favorably by evacuation through the lungs." After a clear description of the three stages of the diseases, that of an inflamma- tory fever attended by symptomatic pulmonary inflammation, then of the cessation of all in- flammatory symptoms, with those of an in- ternal imposthume, followed finally by a fresh inflammation in the diaphragm and lungs with the discharge of the matter in large nauseous evacuations with cough and vomiting through the lungs, he remarks, in his closing para- graph, "Permit me to inform the reader that I was the patient alluded to;" Rush, Physic and Caldwell were his doctors. In the course of the disease he was bled fifteen times, while as to "mercury, although it is almost a specific in hepatitis, our patient received no benefit from it." He died in New York City July 27, 1833. Howard A. Kelly. A Narrative of Med. in America. Mumford, 1903. Dictn'y- Amer. Biog., F. S. Drake, 1872. Patterson, David Nelson (1854-1908) David Nelson Patterson, the author of "Reminiscences of the Early Physicians of Lowell, Mass., and Vicinity," Lowell, 1883, was born in Lowell, August 9, 1854, and died in his native town, April 23, 1908. of chronic nephri- tis, after an illness of two years. He was a graduate of the medical class of 1877, Dartmouth College, and settled in prac- tice in Lowell, his preliminary training having been obtained at the Lowell grammar and high schools. He was the son of George W. and Julia Woods Patterson, both of Henniker, New Hampshire. In 1879 he married Adeline S. Whitney, daughter of George T. and Char- lotte B. Whitney of Lowell. They had no children. Dr. Patterson was a member of the local lodge of Odd Fellows, of the Masons, and he was a Knight of Pj-thias. Besides his book on the early physicians of Lowell, which showed considerable research and a praise- worthy attempt to perpetuate the lives of physicians of note in his community, he wrote "Necrology of the Physicians of Lowell and Vicinity, 1826-1898," 121 pp., Lowell, 1899. This was his earlier book, with additions, mak- ing a total of fifty-nine biographies placed on record. Dr. Patterson, a good story teller and mixer, was exceedingly fond of his home and of en- tertaining his friends and relatives in it. Chil- dren gave him great pleasure and he was on intimate terms with many in his clientage, al- ways regretting that he had none of his own. Information from Mrs. Adeline Whitney Patter- son, and Henry King Fitts, a neohew. Patterson, Henry Stuart (1815-1854) Henry Stuart Patterson was born in Phila- delphia, August 15, 1815. His father came from Ireland at the end of the eighteenth century and settled in Philadelphia as a merchant, and his mother was a daughter of Colonel Stuart, of the American Revolution. Patterson studied medicine with Joseph Par- rish, and then at the University of Pennsyl- vania, where he received his medical degree in 1836. He began to practise, but receiving an appointment as resident physician to the Philadelphia Almshouse, he went there in 1839, resigning after two years to practise again, later, however, becoming physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary. From 1846 to 1848 he was physician to the Philadelphia Almshouse (Blockley) and during this time he wrote both medical and literary papers. For health reasons he went to Europe in 1852, but returned in the autumn unimproved, and after visiting Florida and Georgia, took to bed for six months and died April 27,