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NAME DANFORTH 282 DANIEL was in the study of history, and his collection of Americana was of more than local repute. In person he was short of stature, slight, full of energy and most industrious. In 1909 Dr. Danforth founded a medical mis- sionary hospital in Kiukiang, China, in honor of his first wife, Elizabeth Skelton Danforth. His death, which occurred May S, 1911, was due to valvular heart disease. He was a suc- cessful general practitioner and he was one of the first in Chicago and the Northwest to use the microscope in pathology. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1911, vol. Ixvi, 1407. Bull, of the Soc. of Med. Hist, of Chicago. John C. Webster. 1913, vol. 1, 135-144; also idem, N. S. Davis, 145-147. Danforth, Samuel (1740-1827). Samuel Danforth was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August, 1740. He was the son of Samuel Danforth (Harvard College, 1715), probate judge of the county of Mid- dlesex, who married a Miss Symmes and was descended from Samuel Danforth, the elder, who came to Roxbury from England in 1634, and was second on the list of fellows of Har- vard College, 16S0-16S4. Seven Danforths were in the college catalogue from the year 1634 to 17S8. Samuel's early life was passed in Cambridge. He graduated from Harvard in 1758 and studied medicine with Dr. Rand, the elder, either in Charlestown or Boston. In 1790 Har- vard conferred the honorary M. D. upon him. It is probable that his medical opinions were influenced by Dr. Philip Godfrid Kast. He be- gan to practise in Weston, Massachusetts, but soon removed to Newport, Rhode Island. He returned to Boston in a year or two, married a Miss Watts, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and settled in Boston. During the Revolution he was a Royalist and at one time his wife and three children were obliged to take refuge with her father. After the evacuation of Bos- ton by the British, Dr. Danforth was treated with some harshness by the inhabitants but in time they forgave all and he acquired a large and lucrative practice. He was an original member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society and its president from 1795 to 1798. He made no claim to a knowl- edge of surgery, but was a resourceful prac- titioner of medicine. His manners were pol- ished but not formal, and his carriage attrac- tive yet commanding. He used few remedies and those only whose effects were obvious and powerful — calomel, opium, ipecacuanha and Pe- ruvian bark being his favorites. On one oc- casion he was called to visit a number of per- sons who had been hurt by the fall of a house frame and on arriving found another practi- tioner engaged in bleeding the injured. "Doc- tor," said the latter, "I am doing your work for you." "Then," said Dr. Danforth, "pour the blood back into the veins of these men." He died November 16, 1827, at the age of eighty-seven, in his house in Bowdoin Square. His portrait by Gilbert Stuart is in Sprague Hall in the Boston Medical Library. Waltes L. Burrage. Hist. Har. Med. School. T. F. Harrington, N. Y., 1905. Genealog. Reg. of the First Settlers in N. E. John Farmer, 1829. Bos. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. i, 1828. Commun. Mass. Med. Soc, vol. iv. Daniel, Ferdinand Eugene (1839-1914). Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, physician, author and editor, was born in Hicksford, Virginia, July 18, 1839. He graduated from the New Orleans School of Medicine in 1862, but before this had been a private of the line with the Confederate service and immediately after grad- uation re-entered the army as a surgeon. He had previously studied law for a time and was appointed judge advocate with the Army of the Tennessee as secretary of the army board of medical examiners in Bragg's army and later was attached to the staff of General Har- dee, in the Kentucky campaign. As a surgeon in the Confederate service in the Civil War Dr. Daniel served with dis- tinction, not only ministering to the sick and wounded, but by his presence giving constant encouragement to his fellows. His "Recol- lections of a Rebel Surgeon," a masterpiece of anecdote, sparkling with wit and repartee, was taken largely from his experiences during this troublous time. In 1866 Dr. Daniel moved to Galveston and was one of the founders and teachers in the first medical college in the state of Texas — the Texas Medical College — and a member of its faculty, 1867-1868. In 1885 he founded Red- Back, a Texas medical journal. His constant labors for, and loyalty to, ethical medical or- ganization, through his journal and in the counsels of the Texas Medical Association, of which he was first president after its reorgan- ization in 1904, justly entitled him to the name of "The Father of Medicine in Te.xas." In 1906 Dr. Daniel was elected president of the American International Congress on Tuber- culosis, which met in New York in 1907. He was a member of the Texas Academy of Science and of the American Public Health League. His articles on the "Criminal Re- sponsibility of the Insane" and "A Plea for Reform in Criminal Jurisprudence" were largely quoted and were translated into for- eign languages. As a monument to his scien- tific side stands his work "The Strange Case