The New International Encyclopædia/Dowler, Bennet

DOW′LER, Bennet (1797-1879). An American physician. He was born in Moundsville, Va.; graduated at the medical school of the University of Maryland, and in 1836 settled in New Orleans, where he founded the Academy of Sciences, and for some years edited the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. His many experiments upon the condition of the human body immediately after death resulted in valuable discoveries in contractibility, calorification, and capillary circulation. He is the author of a Tableau of the Yellow Fever of 1853 (1854).