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NAME DRAKE 329 DRAPER Treasury the latter hospital became also the Marine Hospital of the United States. The first session of the Medical College of Ohio was held during the winter of 1820-21, with Drake as lecturer on the institutes and practice of medicine, including obstetrics and diseases of women and children. Before the close of the session misunderstandings sprang up, and Drake was expelled by the votes of two colleagues. In 1823 he went back to Lexington, Kentucky, and resumed the chair ■of materia medica, but in 1825 was transferred to the chair of practice, retained until 1827. In 1830 he held the professorship of prac- tice in Jefferson Medical College, of Phila- delphia. There he created a furor by his elo- quence not only among the students, but also the profession. At the end of the term he returned to Cincinnati and founded a med- ical department for Miami University, which, however, united with the Medical College of Ohio before the opening of the first session. Dr. Drake was assigned a subordinate position, and once more retired to private life. In 1835 he organized the medical depart- ment of Cincinnati College. His colleagues were : Drs. Landon C. Rives, Joseph N. Mc- Dowell, John P. Harrison, J. B. Rogers, H. G. Jameson, and S. D. Gross. When the Cincin- nati school closed. Dr. Drake was appointed professor of clinical medicine and pathological anatomy in the University of Louisville. In 1844 he was transferred to the chair of prac- tice of medicine, holding it until 1849, when he resigned and once more returned to Cincinnati. In this year he was reappointed professor of practice in the Medical College of Ohio, but trouble arose, and in the spring of 1850 he re- signed. In the autumn of 1850 he was recalled to Louisville, where he filled the chair of practice of medicine in 1851-52. In 1852 he returned to Cincinnati, and to the Medical College of Ohio, then reorganized. But his work was done, he saw only the opening ex- •ercises of the session. In 1835 he exerted himself to enlist the people of Ohio and the southwest in favor of a chain of railroads from Cincinnati to the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia. He made an elaborate report, showing the political and commercial advantages that would accrue to the states through which the road would pass. The scheme failed through the unwill- ingness of one of the states to grant the right of way. More than fifty years later his wisiies were realized. Dr. Drake was a voluminous writer. His first work was on the "Topography, Qimate and Diseases of Cincinnati," published in 1810, and in 1815 his celebrated "Picture of Cin- cinnati." The year 1827 saw him editing the IVestern Journal of the Medical and Phys- ical Sciences, which he continued to do until 1836. In 1832 he published a "Practical Trea- tise on the History, Prevention, and Cure of Epidemic Cholera." His "Discourses" were de- livered in July, 1852, before the Cincinnati Medical Library Association, but the crown- ing glory of his life was "The Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America. " In 1822 he annouced his intention of preparing it, but it was not until 1837 that he began in earnest the collection of material. In the prosecution of this work he made several tours through the West and South. Finally the first volume of the work was presented to the profession in 1850. The second volume did not appear until November, 1854, two years after the death of the author. Dr. Drake received many tokens of honor from scientific bodies at home and abroad. He died in Cincinnati, November 5, 1852, from arachnitis. A. G. Drury. Memoirs of the Life of Drake, E. D. Mansfield, Cincinnati, 1855. New Jersey Med. Reporter, Burlington, 1853, vol. vi. Tran. Coll. Phys.. Phila., 1853. Lives of Eminent American Physicians, S. D. Gross. Phila., 1861. West. lour. Med. and Surg., Louisville, 1854, 4 s., vol. ii. L. P. Yandell. Daniel Drake, or Then and Now, W. Pepper. Tour. Amer. Med. Assoc, Chicago, 1895, vol. xxv, Daniel Drake and His Followers, Otto Juettner, Cincinnati. 1909. Biograpliical Notice of Daniel Drake, Charles D. Meigs, 1853. For portrait, see collection of portraits, Surg.- gen's Library, Washington, D. C. Draper, Frank Winthrop ( 1 843- 1 909 ) Frank W. Draper, pioneer Massachusetts medical examiner, was born in Wayland, Mass- chusetts, February 25, 1843, and died in Brook- line, Massachusetts, April 19, 1909. He grad- uated A. B. from Brown University in the class of 1862, and took there his A. M. de- gree in 1865. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 35th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and saw much active service on many fields over a wide area, extending from Virginia to Vicks- burg. In March, 1864, he was in the Virginia Campaign and a month later was promoted to a captaincy and attached to the 9th Army Corps. He went through the Wilderness Campaign and was in the "Crater," that hell upon earth, before Petersburg. He served as aide to General Sigfried and was in the battle at Hatcher's Run, and he also served under General Terry in North Carolina and