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NAME DAWSON 296 DAWSON ated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons in New York in 1881, receiving the Har- sen prize for proficiency in studies. After serving for fifteen months upon the house staflf of Mount Sinai Hospital, he engaged in the practice of medicine, devoting himself in later years exclusively to surgery. He was the author of "An Aid to Materia Medica," published in New York; also a mono- graph entitled "The Treatment of Certain Malignant Growths by Excision of Both Ex- ternal Carotids," published in Philadelphia. The latter work was an essay for which he was awarded the S.amuel D. Gross prize of $1,000 in Philadelphia in 1902. He was the author of various articles on surgery, in "Wood's Refer- ence Handbook of the Medical Sciences," and was a voluminous contributor to medical peri- odical literature. Dr. Dawbarn was a member of the County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine, the State Medical Asso- ciation, the American Medical Association, the Pathological Society, the Surgical Society, the West End Medical Society, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, and the Physicians' Mutual Aid Society. He also belonged to the American Association of Anatomists. Dr. Dawbarn married in 1886 Ethel Gordon, daughter of Charles Stuart Sussex Lennox of Brooklyn, New York. She died in 1890, leav- ing one child. Waring Lennox. In 1893 Dr. Dawbarn married Carolyn M., daughter of Prof. Edward Lorenzo Holmes, president of Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois. He died July 18, 1915, at his home, 105 West Seventy-fourth Street, of a complication of' diseases. Robert T. Morris. Dawson, Benjamin Franklin (1847-1888). Benjamin F. Dawson, obstetrician, was born in New York City on June 28, 1847, and gradu- ated from the college of Physicians and Sur- geons in 1866. While a student during the last year of the Civil War he served as acting assistant surgeon in the Federal Army, and after graduation established himself in practice in New York, paying special attention to sur- gery, gynecology, obstetrics and diseases of children. In 1868 he founded the American Journal of Obstetrics, and was editor until 1874, contributing largely to this and other similar publications for many years. In 1875 he published a report of a case of inversio uteri of two years' standing reduced by taxis. About ten years later he gave up the practice of his profession on account of ill health. He was for a number of years professor of gynecology in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, assistant surgeon of the Woman's Hospital, attending physician of the New York Foundling Asylum, and a member of the New York Obstretrical Society and other medical associations. Later he devoted more attention to gynecology, the practice of which he en- riched with many ingenious instruments — an ovariotomy clamp, a spreading sinus speculum, and a galvano-cautery battery. With Prof. Joseph Kamerer he published a translation of "Klob's Pathological Anatomy of the Female Sexual Organs," 1868, and two years later an American edition of Barnes's "Obstetric Oper- ations." He died on April 3, 1888, at his home, No. 8 East Fifteenth Street, New York, of diabetes, from which he had suffered for years. Med. Reg. State of N. Y., Albany, 1888. Araer. Jour, of Obstet., N. Y., 1888, vol. xxi. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1888, vol. cxviii, 492 New York Med. Jour., 1888, vol. xlvii. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Dawson, John (1810-1866). John Dawson was born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, May 11, 1810, the oldest son of John and Nancy Hays Dawson. The Dawson family moved from Sharpsburg to Berkeley County, Virginia, where they lived until 1830, when they emigrated to Green County, Ohio, and settled in the village of Jamestown. Shortly after his arrival in James- town, young Dawson made the acquaintance of Dr. Matthias Winans, the physician and lead- ing citizen of the place. On Dr. Winans' advice the younger man took up the study of medicine, and practically became a member of the doc- tor's family. He eagerly took advantage of the well-stocked library of his friend and patron, and made up to a great extent for the lack of a liberal education which opportunity had de- nied him, and was soon not only a well read man, but proficient in Latin and Greek. In 1835 the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery was organized, with Drs. Daniel Drake, Samuel D. Gross, Joshua Martin, J. W. McDowell, Landon C. Rives and Horatio G. Jameson as the faculty. To this school young Dawson went for his first course in medicine. In 1838, Drs. Drake and Gross, having gone to Louisville to join the faculty of the Univer- sity of Louisville, young Dawson followed them, and there took his second course. He contributed his first article to the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery under the title "An Epidemic of Typhus Fever in Ohio." This article attracted the attention of the pro- fession, and stamped the author as a vigorous