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and Surgeons of New York, until 1883, when he retired from active teaching and accepted the presidency of the college.

During the war he served in the army, first in April, 1861, as surgeon of the New York seventh regiment, and in August he was appointed brigade surgeon, and served until March, 1864, when he returned to New York City and re-entered upon his duties at the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons.

Dalton was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of numerous medical societies. He was an earnest student and able writer. His "Treatise on Human Physiology," the first edition of which was published in 1S59, always enjoyed marked popularity, and was at once adopted as a standard text-book in all of our medical schools; it went through seven editions, the last published in 1882. He also wrote a "Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene for Schools," etc., (which was published in 1868 and was translated into French); "The Ex- perimental Method in Medicine;" "Doc- trines of the Circulation;" "The Topo- graphical Anatomy of the Brain," a beau- tifully illustrated atlas of which only two hundred and fifty impressions were printed, and copies of which are now highly prized.

A list of his writings is in the Surg.-gen. Cat.,

Wash., D. C.

Med. Record, N. Y., 1889, xxxv.

N. Y. Med. Jour., 1889, vol. xlix.

Nat. Acad. Sc. Biog. Mem. Wash., 1895, vol.

iii. (S. W. Mitchell.)

Daly, William Hudson (1842-1901).

William Hudson Daly, army doctor and laryngologist, was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania September 11, 1842, the son of Scotch-Irish parents, Thomas and Helen Mar Daly. When he was seventeen both parents died, and when the Civil War began he fought as a confederate in the fifteenth Virginia Volunteers and was present in most of the big battles from Big Bethel to Lee's Mills. After peace was proclaimed he entered Jefferson Medical College and was later assistant surgeon United States

Army in the army hospital at White- hall, Pennsylvania, and in the military hospital in Savannah, Georgia, Hilten- head, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. He then entered the University of Michigan, graduating there in 1866 and settling down to practise in Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, but in 1878 went to Europe, and for a year devoted his time to the study of diseases of the ear, nose, throat and chest in the schools and hospitals. In 1868 he was appointed physician to the Re- form School of Pennsylvania; in 1871 as surgeon-in-chief of the eighteenth Division, Pennsylvania national guards; and for many years was visiting physician to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburg and the Pittsburg Free Dispensary. Though he engaged in the general practice of surgery and med- icine, he gradually restricted himself to the treatment of diseases of the nose and throat, of which specialty he might be said to have been the father in America. In 1S94 he was president of the Ameri- can Laryngological Association and in 1897 president of the American Laryn- gological, Rhinological and Otological Society. In 1881 he was president of the Allegheny County Medical Society.

He was a member of the British Laryn- gological, Rhinological and Otological Association; the SociSte' Francaise de l'Otologie, de Laryngologie, et de Rhin- ologie.

He contributed much to the literature of medicine and especially on the subject of laryngology. Among others may be mentioned a paper which appeared in the April, 1882, issue of the "Archives of Laryngology" on "The Relation of Hay Asthma and Chronic Nasophryn- geal Catarrh," of which Sir Morel Maken- zie said in an editorial in the "London Journal of Laryngology and Rhinology," August, 18S7: "There can be no doubt that Dr. Daly may justly be regarded as the founder of the surgical school of rhinology in America, which has at the present day so many distinguished representatives, by his having drawn