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forcible attention to the importance of intranasal surgical treatment." His con- tributions to medical literature numbered over half a hundred and embraced many subjects.

At the outbreak of the Spanish War Dr. Daly was appointed major and chief surgeon, United States Volunteers and assigned to duty on the staff of Gen. Nelson A. Miles.

On June 22, 1896, he married Athalia Cooper, daughter of James N. Cooper, a steel manufacturer of Pittsburg. Two children were born, both of whom died in infancy, Mrs. Daly died November 22, 1899.

After the death of his wife his friends became aware of a gradual change in his previously jovial disposition. He suffered from insomnia and shortly be- fore his death, on June 9, 1901, developed delusions of varied character under the influence of which he ended his life by suicide. At the time Dr. Daly possessed a considerable fortune which he devised by will for the establishment of a "Home" to provide for girls dependent upon their own exertions for support.

This "Athalia Daly Home" was open- ed in Pittsburg November 1, 1907, and bore the fruit which Dr. Daly, in his philanthropy, had hoped for.

His portrait is in the meeting hall of the Allegheny County Medical Society, at the Pittsburg Free Dispensary.

A. K.

Penn. Med. Jour. June, 1901.

Damon, Howard F. (1832-1884).

Howard F. Damon, M. D., was born in Boston, 1832, graduated in arts from Harvard in 1S5S, and received his medical degree from his alma mater in 1861. He was one of the twenty-nine original members of the American Dermatolog- ical Association, but never took a very active part in its proceedings.

Shortly after graduation he was ap- pointed physician to the skin department of the Boston City Hospital and in 1860 published a small brochure entitled "Neuroses of the Skin," also in 1869

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editing an "Atlas of Skin Disease," besides being an occasional contributor to der- matological literature.

In an old medical journal of 1869 is advertised " Dr. Damon's photographs of The Diseases of the Skin, with letter- press description, put up in a neat portfolio $12." These pictures, consid- ering the date, are wonderfully good.

Some of his articles can be found in the "American Journal of Syphilology," edited by H. M. Henry, and in the "Archives of Dermatology," edited by L. D. Bulkley.

Dr. Damon died September 17, 1S84. J. M. W.

Dana, Israel Thorndike (1S27-1904).

If you look at a certain picture of this successful physician at the age of forty, you are struck by its interrogative aspect. He looks as if asking of you the answer to an interesting problem. The profile is bold, the forehead coming for- ward at an acute angle, and from that the nose, so that the whole effect is striking and strong.

The career of this man was note- worthy. He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, June 6, 1827. the young- est of fourteen children of the Rev Samuel and Henrietta Bridge Dana. Graduating at the Marblehead Academy, he spent two years in an office in Boston, afterwards studying medicine at the Harvard Medical School where he graduated in 1850. He also took a course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Two years' study in Paris and Dublin followed and Dana began to practise in Portland, Maine, 1852, laboring there carefully. In 1856, with the assistance of Dr. William Chaffee Robinson, and Dr. Simon Fitch, of Portland, he estab- lished the Portland School for Medical Instruction, and continued with it, in one chair or another, until his death. He also established the Portland Dis- pensary for the treatment of the poor. From I860 to 1882 he was professor of materia medica at the Medical School