COWAN

Charles ( son of Rev. Thomas Conolly Cowan, who d. Reading 1856 ). M.D. Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, M.D. Paris 1834; pres. of Hunter i an Soc.; an early exponent of the science and art of auscultation; practised at Bath 1835–9, at Reading 1839 to death; senior phys. Royal Berks hire hospital 1839, the best speaker in the profe ion; author of A Bedside manual, or a physical diagnosis of the lungs, . 1836; Phrenology consistent with science and revelation 1841, and many other works. d. Reading 6 Dec. 1868 aged 62. Barker’s Photographs (1868), ii , 9–13, portrait .