Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-15
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DR.. B A. DR SCKWEINITZ VICTIM
OF URAKMIc POISON.
Was Chief Of H:oeAamic Division Of
Bureau of Animal Industry, Agri-
cultural Department.

Or. Emile A. de Schwes nitz, chief CT the
bioehemic division of the bureau OF ami
NAL industry OF the. Agricultural Depart
nsent. died at u:3o o'clock at the Column
ban University Hospital this morning,
/ from the effects Of uraemic poisoning. Dr..
de Schweinitz suffered an attack of tspho q
fever during the past summer and his as
sociates at the Department of Agriculture
say that spee that time he had been all
ing. He complained yesterday afternoon OF
feeling badly while at his home. at 1C2i
Vermont avenue. and decided TO go to the
Columbian University Hospital for consul
tation.
, He walked to that institution and re-
manned there. although his condition did
not take a turn for the worse until about
8 O'Clock last night. At the laboratory of
the bfochemic division 1t was stated that
DR.. Schweinitz had been in iH-hea1th even
before he suffered the ravages of typhoid
last summer. and that he had frequently
complained of illness during the past few
months.
DIR. Schweinitz is the dean of the medical
department of the Columbian University
and has i member of several commits
sions apo ID for the purpose of inspect
ing and regulating the supply of milk for
the District.
Native Of North Carolina.
Dr.. Emile Alexander de Schweinitz was
born in Salem, N. c., in 1885. He was the
son of Bishop de Sehwe ntz, famous &C.
clesiastic of the MoravIan Church IN that
town, and Sophia A. HermGn Schweintz.
He was of Moravian extraction, and it has
been said that a member of his family in
Europe IS now serving a special st
tendant upon the Crown Prince of Germany.
In that country the fami y WIS known ~
the name of Won Schwe.n.tz and it dates
its history back several cen uries.
DIR. Schweinitz was educated in the Naz-
areth Hall, Pa, High School and the Nor
avian College of Bethlehem, Pa; the Uni
versfty of North Carolina. the University
Of Virginia, the University of Berlin and
the University of Gittengen, besides the
Columbian University of this city. He had
degrees of Ph.D. from the University OF
North Carolina, A. NJ. and Ph.D. from the
University of Gittengen, besides that of NJ.
ID. from Columbian.
tie was u member of the American Bio
logical Society the American Entomology
cal Society, the Aryfsr:l.n section of the
American Chemical Society, of which he
was president in 1897; the American Bacte-
roiogical Society, the Medical Society. the
District of Columbia Medical Association,
the American Public Health Associate
and the Washington Academy of Sciences.
In the foreign societies he was a member
OF the German Chemical Society. the Inter
national Applied Chemical and Biological
Society and the French Society of Pure
chemistry.
AT various times he represented the
United States at International conferences
on the subject of health, and was the all
thor of many learned papers On the prod
uct5 of bacteria. preparation of tubercuiine,
various antl-toxiEs, especially those of tu-
bereulosis.
United States Delegate.
He was United States delegate to the
fourth tuberculosis congress in Paris. in
1858. of which he was vice president; dele
gate to the tuberculosis congress in Berlin,
in 1889, Of which he was also vice presi-
dent, and to the interna tionaI medical con-
gress, in 1900. where he held ike posi-
ton.
He also attended in an official capacity the
international congress Of hygiene in Paris
IN iste.- In addition to being the dean of tie
medical department of Columbian Univer-
slty he Was also professor in the Columbian
Graduate School He was a member of the
metropolitan, Cosmos and Chevy Chase
clubs.
Or. de SchweinitZ was much beloved by
his associates at the Department of Agrf-
culture He received an appo. atment in
the bureau of chemistry under DIR. Wiley,
january 1, 1899 and organized. unaided.
the biochenic division of the bureau of ami
mai industry, having been at its head since
that date.