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(Dr.) (William Herbert) Lowe
1862–1933
A New Jersey veterinarian and public animal-health writer, he is best remembered for practical work on cattle diseases and quarantine. His surviving publications reflect an era when veterinary science was becoming more organized and professional in the United States.
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Special report on diseases of cattle
by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson, Dr. (William) Dickson, A. (Adolph) Eichhorn, Richard W. (Richard West) Hickman, James Law, (Dr.) (William Herbert) Lowe, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh, John R. (John Robbins) Mohler, A. J. (Alexander James) Murray, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, M. R. (Milton R.) Trumbower, Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward
About the author
Born in 1862 and dying in 1933, William Herbert Lowe was an American veterinarian associated with Paterson, New Jersey. Contemporary records and journal references identify him as a veterinary surgeon and as an active figure in professional veterinary circles in New Jersey at the start of the twentieth century.
Lowe wrote and spoke on animal health, including work connected with cattle disease and veterinary practice. His name appears on editions of Special Report on Diseases of Cattle linked to the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, and medical-journal records also preserve a 1903 presidential address delivered before the Veterinary Medical Association of New Jersey.
Although not a widely famous literary figure, he represents an important kind of early technical author: a working specialist whose writing was meant to inform practitioners, farmers, and officials. The books and papers associated with him are useful snapshots of veterinary medicine as it was being standardized in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.