Daniel Drake

For the member of the Missouri House of Representatives, see Charles Daniel Drake.

Daniel Drake

Daniel Drake house in 1902

Daniel Drake (October 20, 1785 – November 5, 1852) was an American physician, writer.^[1] He was born in Plainfield, N. J. to Isaac Drake and Elizabeth Shotwell, and elder brother of Benjamin Drake author of Life of Tecumseh. Daniel graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1815, and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, 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 and other members of the Ohio medical profession established the Ohio State Medical Society. He was connected, either as a lecturer or professor, at different times, with Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, the University of Louisville, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His voluminous published works include:

• Topography, Climate, and Diseases of Cincinnati (1810)
• Notices Concerning Cincinnati (1810; 1908)
• An account of the epidemic cholera : as it appeared in Cincinnati (1832)
• Practical treatise on the history, prevention, and treatment of epidemic cholera (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 America, (1850-54)
• Pioneer Life in Kentucky, edited by his son (1870)

In 1852, he rejoined the faculty at the Medical College of Ohio but died a few days after receiving his appointment.[1]

The Daniel Drake Home was located at 429 East Third Street in Cincinnati. He was a founding Member of Christ Church in Cincinnati.

References

1. ^ WorldCat. Drake, Daniel 1785-1852

External links

• Good biography
• Some biographical details at the University of Cincinnati
• "Daniel Drake". Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography. 2. 1887. p. 223. http://books.google.com/books?id=sgZLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223.  Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

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Name	Drake, Daniel
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Date of birth	October 20, 1785
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Date of death	November 5, 1852
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