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NAME DAVEIS 286 DAVID riett McNary of Marysville, Kentucky, but died when Philander was four, and the boy did as most medical aspirants have done, just got what education he could between farm work and teaching school. But when six- teen he studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. William McNary, in Martinsville, Illinois, then attended Rush Medical College, taking his M. D. there and finally settling down to practice and remaining in Junction City, Kan- sas, for thirty-five years. He was one of the first in Kansas to take up antiseptic and aseptic surgery and to do total extirpation of the breast for carcinoma, his pioneer surgical work being remarkable for the period in which it was done. He also wrote a considerable number of articles, not only on his own subjects but in political, so- ciologic and philosophic vein. On March 4, 1855, he married Susan Alice Mitchell and had one son and three daugh- ters. His second wife (in 1870) was Mrs. Sarah Sage, but he had no more children. Daughtery died of apoplexy on May 23, 1904, at his own home. M. Morgan Cloud. Daveis, John Taylor Gilman (1816-1873). This careful and punctilious physician, one of the earliest practitioners in diseases of the eye in Maine, was born in Portland, Maine, March 21, 1816, the son of Charles S. Daveis, a distinguished lawyer, and Frances Ellen Gil- man, a daughter of Governor Gilman, of New Hampshire. Gilman Daveis, as he was generally called, was educated in the public schools, studied medicine in Portland under the direction of Dr. John Taylor Gilman (q. v.), and gradu- ated from Bowdoin College M. D. in 1837 and with the same degree in the same year from the University of Pennsylvania. Bowdoin con- ferred the degree of A. M. on him in 1858. Immediately after, he settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, practised there for five years, and then returned to Portland, where he prac- tised successfully for thirty years. Among the cases which early helped him to local fame and practice was one of club-foot, which he cured after it had been repeatedly treated in vain by others, and also a successfully operat- ed case of squint. As an oculist he gained more than a local recognition, and did many suc- cessful operations. He read before the Maine Medical Association one or two excellent papers on ophthalmology. He owned an excellent medical library, and read abundantly on contemporary literature, in fact was one of the best read physicians in Maine. He wore a broad black tie, in a bow knot, and his coat always had a black velvet collar. Small tabs of beard ornamented each cheek, and he had a radiant, agreeable face. It is curious that so little can be learned concerning a man so widely known. Dr. Daveis was president of the Maine Medi- cal Association in 1857-58. The death of this physician came without a warning, for while preparing to operate up- on a patient, he was seized with a violent pain in the right shoulder, which rapidly ex- tended downwards and involved his entire side, so that he had to leave his patient and take to his bed. Pneumonia set in, and he died in a few days on May 9, 1873. James A. Spalding. Trans. Maine Med. Assoc., 1873. David, Aaron Hart (1812-1882). Aaron Hart David was born in Montreal, Canada, on October 9, 1812. He was the son of Samuel David, a retired merchant, who was Major in the 42nd Batt. Canadian Militia and served with it during the war of 1812 with the United States — receiving the war medal. After receiving a liberal education, Aaron David was indentured to Dr. William Caldwell, in January, 1829, and in the fall of the same year he entered as a student of med- icine in the Medical Faculty of McGill Uni- versity — then opening its first session. In 1833 Dr. David went to Edinburgh and in 1835 he graduated at the University of Edinburgh, be- ing twenty-fourth in honors, in a class of 117 graduates. After travelling a short time on the conti- nent Dr. David returned to Montreal and be- gan the practice of medicine, marrying in 1836. From 1837-1839 he was assistant surgeon of the "Montreal Rifles" and served with it during the whole of the rebellion, being present with his regiment at the battle of St. Eustache. In 1841 he removed with his family to Three Rivers, where he speedily acquired a large and lucrative practice, but in 1844 he returned to- Montreal, where he practised up to the time- of his final illness. In 1852, in conjunction with several other physicians, he organized the St. Lawrence School of Medicine, and in the same year he and Dr. Macdonnell founded and edit- ed The Canada Medical Journal. In 1870 he, with nine other doctors, founded a new school of medicine, the University of Bishop College, Faculty of Medicine, absorbed by McGill Uni- versity in 1905. He became dean in 1870 and from the first session *illed the chair of"