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NAME DALY 279 DAMON 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 Vol- unteers 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 sur- geon United States Army in the army hospital at Whitehall, Pennsylvania, and in the military hospital in Savannah, Georgia, Hiltonhead, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. He then entered the University of Michigan, grad- uating there in 1866 and settling down to prac- tice in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, but in 1878 went to Europe, and for a year devoted his time to 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 sur- geon-in-chief of the eighteenth Division, Penn- sylvania national guards ; and for many years was visiting physician to the Western Penn- sylvania Hospital in Pittsburg and the Pitts- burg Free Dispensary. Though he engaged in the general practice of surgery and medicine, he gradually restricted himself to the treat- ment of diseases of the nose and throat, of which specialty he might be said to have been the father in America. In 1894 he was president of the American Laryngological Association and in 1897 presi- dent of the American Laryngological, Rhino- logical and Otological Society. In 1881 he was president of the Allegheny County Medical Society. He was a member of the British Laryngo- logical, Rhinological and Otological Associa- tion ; the Societe Frangaise de I'Otologie, de Laryngologie et de Rhinologie. 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 Re- lation of Hay Asthma and Chronic Nasophryn- geal Catarrab," of which Sir Morel Mackenzie said in an editorial in the London Journal of Laryngology and Rhinology, August, 1887: "There can be no doubt that Dr. Daly may justly be regarded as the founder of the sur- gical school of rhinology in America, which has at the present day so many distinguished representatives, by his having drawn forcible attention to the importance of intranasal sur- gical treatment." His contributions 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 staflf of Gen. Nelson A. Miles. On June 22, 1896, he married Athalia Cooper, daughter of James N. Cooper, a steel manu- facturer 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 be- came aware of a gradual change in his pre- viously jovial disposition. He suffered from insomnia and shortly before 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 opened 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. Adolph Koenic. Penn. Med. Jour., June, 1901. Damon, Howard Franklin (1833-1884). Howard Franklin Damon was born in Scit- uate, Massachusetts, April 6, 1833 ; graduated in arts from Harvard in 1858, and received his medical degree from his alma mater in 1861. He was one of the twenty-nine original mem- bers of the American Dermatalogical Asso- ciation. Shortly after graduation he was appointed physician to the skin department of the Boston City Hospital and in 1860 published a small brochure entitled "Neuroses of the Skin," and in 1863, "Leucocythemia," for which he re- ceived the Boylston Prize of that year. In 1869 he edited an "Atlas of Skin Disease," be- sides being an occasional contributor to der- matological literature. He wrote "Structural Lesions of the Skin," 1869, and an article on the frequency of skin diseases, in 1870. In an old medical journal of 1869 is adver- tised "Dr. Damon's photographs of The Dis- eases of the Skin, with letterpress description, put up in a neat portfolio $12." These pictures, considering the date, are wonderfully good. Some of his articles can be found in the American Journal of Syphilolotjy, edited by