Daniel Drake
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physician
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, writer
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. He was born in Plainfield
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, N. J.
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to Isaac Drake and Elizabeth Shotwell, and elder brother of Benjamin Drake
Benjamin Drake
Benjamin Drake Historian, editor, and writer born in May's Lick, Mason County, Kentucky to Isaac Drake and Elizabeth Shotwell. His elder brother was the physician and author Daniel Drake...
author of Life of Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812...
. Daniel graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania
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in 1815, and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
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, where he became known as a physician and writer. In 1820 he organized the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati and secured a State appropriation for its support and that of a hospital. In 1827 he founded the Western Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, which he continued to edit until 1848. In 1846 he, William Maclay Awl
William Maclay Awl
William Maclay Awl was an alienist, a politician and a mental health hospital administrator.He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Mary Awl and lawyer and Senator Samuel Awl. He studied basic medical concepts under a local physician. At age 20 he entered the medical department of the...
and other members of the Ohio medical profession established the Ohio State Medical Society. He was connected, either as a lecturer
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or professor
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, at different times, with Transylvania University
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, Lexington, Kentucky
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, the University of Louisville
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, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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. His voluminous published works include:
- Notices Concerning Cincinnati (1810; 1908)
- http://books.google.com/books?id=wy0WAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Natural+and+Statistical+View,+or+Picture+of+Cincinnati+and+the+Miami+Country&hl=en&ei=TyLQTrvCFMPj0QGtsZ01&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Natural%20and%20Statistical%20View%2C%20or%20Picture%20of%20Cincinnati%20and%20the%20Miami%20Country&f=falseNatural and statistical view; or picture of Cincinnati and the Miami country] (1815)
- An account of the epidemic cholera : as it appeared in Cincinnati (1832)
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2552035RPractical treatise on the history, prevention, and treatment of epidemic choleraCholeraCholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking or eating water or food that has been contaminated by the diarrhea of an infected person or the feces...
] (1832) - Practical Essays on Medical Education (1832)
- An introductory lecture on the means of promoting the intellectual improvement of the students and physicians of the valley of the Mississippi (1844)
- Systematic Treatise on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, (1850-54) - Pioneer Life in Kentucky: A series of reminiscential letters from Daniel Drake ... to his children, edited by his sonCharles D. DrakeCharles Daniel Drake was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended St. Joseph's College in 1823 and 1824, and Patridge's Military Academy in 1824 and 1825; he was appointed midshipman in the United States Navy in 1825 and served four years, when he resigned...
(1870)
In 1852, he rejoined the faculty at the Medical College of Ohio but died a few days after receiving his appointment.http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=108
The Daniel Drake Home was located at 429 East Third Street in Cincinnati. He was a founding Member of Christ Church
Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati
Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, United States.- History :Christ Church was founded in 1817 by William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, Dr. Daniel Drake and other early settlers of Cincinnati...
in Cincinnati.
External links
- Good biography
- Some biographical details at the University of Cincinnati Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography