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He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of George Ryerson Fowler, a surgeon, and Louise Rachel Wells.
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He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of George Ryerson Fowler, a surgeon, and Louise Rachel Wells.
After graduating from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1891, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, from which he received the M. D. in 1895.
Although he passed the internship examination with highest honors at St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, where his father was an attending surgeon, Fowler decided not to accept the appointment in order to avoid any suggestion of nepotism.
From 1896 to 1900 he was connected with the New York Polyclinic Medical School, first as clinical assistant and later as instructor in surgery, but the increasing demands of his practice prevented a continuation of his career as a teacher.
It was during these years, when Fowler was assisting his father in major surgery, that he adopted the procedure, following an operation, of raising the head of the bed about eighteen to twenty inches, a position that employed the force of gravity to help restore normal peristalsis and prevent peritonitis.
His father gave equal credit to Fowler for the concept of "the elevated drainage posture" (commonly known as the Fowler position), which resulted in the saving of innumerable lives in the era before antibiotics, when septic peritonitis was almost invariably fatal.
Fowler was also commended for improving gallbladder surgery and for the successful extirpation of large portions of the liver when such a procedure was considered quite hazardous.
In 1900 Fowler took a sabbatical to study at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, where the surgical tradition of Theodor Billroth was maintained by his favorite pupil, Karl Gussenbauer. Two years later Fowler again visited Europe, this time touring the principal hospitals in order to absorb the recent advances in abdominal surgery.
After his return to America, he collaborated with his father in the preparation of the latter's A Treatise on Surgery (1906). By the age of thirty-two, Fowler was a central figure in the medical life of Brooklyn and Long Island. In addition to the hospitals already mentioned, he later served on the staffs of the Huntington, Beth Moses, and Bay Ridge hospitals, and as consultant to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
From 1925 to 1929 he served on the Joint Committee on Graduate Education of the Kings County Medical Society and the Long Island Medical College.
He wrote chapters for three systems of surgery; and his own book, The Operating Room and the Patient (1906), ran through several reprints and three editions. Aside from his medical work Fowler loved nature and the outdoor life.
He died in Brooklyn, New York.
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Liberal in his view of a changing society, he took great pleasure in encouraging talent in younger men and in advancing their careers.
He was a member of the Joint Committee on Graduate Education of the Kings County Medical Society.
He was also a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Medical Editors' and Authors' Association, the Harvey Society, the Society Internationale de Chirurgie, and the Deutsche Aertze Verein.
During World War I, Fowler was a member of the New York State Committee of the Council of National Defense, and served as chairman of the Auxiliary Medical Defense Committee of Kings County.
His first wife was Eleanor S. White, whom he married on December 26, 1894; they had one son. The second was Sophie Conrad: they had one son. The third was Rose Blanche Beauchesne, whom he married on August 11, 1933; they had two children.