Address to the Graduating Class of Rush Medical College: Session of 1848-49 (Classic Reprint)
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We inquire, then, whether physicians constitute an essen tial part of society, or can their services be dispensed with?
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The Chicago Medical Journal, 1861, Vol. 18 (Classic Reprint)
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Cowards - A Contrast. 495 Chemical Therapeutics. 519 Cadets, Medical Cerebral Symptoms, etc Congestion of the Brain.
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The Chicago Medical Journal, 1863, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
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During the Operation the patient was unconscious, from the use of chloroform, judiciously administered by Dr. Cutter, who also assisted in the operation.
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The Chicago Medical Journal, 1862, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
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The os uteri was but slightly dilated - head presenting with vertex to the left acetabulum - pains very moderate and occurring at intervals of ten or fifteen minutes.
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The Chicago Medical Journal, 1859, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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M. Malgaigne, in his classical work on fractures (page says, an important question to be solved is to know if our art possesses any means for softening callus, so as to cause it to yield more easily; and after referring to the means above enumerated, and others, he concludes that none of them are deserving of confidence. It is this want which I hope to supply by the introduction of a new method of treatment.
In conclusion, permit me to add that I do not advise the resort to this method in every case. The age and good health of this patient, the superficial situation of the tibia (the only bone operated on), are all circumstances favorable to success; still, I am not without the hope that it will be found' applicable In a considerable variety of cases hitherto regarded as incurable, or in which more severe operations are regarded as necessary.
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Report on Surgery: Made to the Illinois State Medical Society, at Its Annual Meeting, May, 1860 (Classic Reprint)
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In regard to the means to be resorted to in any particular case Of non -umon, they cannot be determined beforehand. The Subject is complex and requires to be considered in all its parts before laying down rules of general application.
Firstly, let us consider for a moment the nature of the vari ous operative plans proposed.
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Essay on a New Method of Treating Serpent Bite and Other Poisoned Wounds: Being the Annual Address Delivered Before the Illinois State Medical Society, June 7th, 1854 (Classic Reprint)
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These experiments have been repeated by myself alone and in connection with others, over one hundred times, with the same results; and I feel confident; therefore, that their accuracy cannot be called in question, and that in regard to the woorara, it is quite safe to affirm that the solution Of iodine neutralizes its action.
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Address on Dental Specialties, Before the American Dental Association: Chicago, July 27, 1865 (Classic Reprint)
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It gives me great pleasure to meet here the members of so honorable and useful a profession as yours. The profession of Dentistry is one of very modern origin, and is that branch of the medical profession which owes its development and perfection most essentially to our own country, and is, indeed, I think I may say, the one branch of the profession in which we Americans can claim especially the pre-eminence. To be an American dentist is a recommendation in all the principal cities of Europe, and although the medical profession in gen eral, and the surgical department especially, has an honorable position in the literature and among the profession in foreign countries, it can hardly be said to have a claim to the title of any pre-eminence.
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Dr. Daniel Brainard was an American surgeon and pioneer in medical education. He is regarded for being a founder of Rush Medical College.
Background
Daniel Brainard was born on May 15, 1812 in Whitesboro, New York. He was the fifth child of a family of nine born to Jeptha, Jr. , and Catherine (Comstock) Brainard. His father, a descendant in the fifth generation from that Daniel Brainard who as a boy of eight arrived in America from England in 1649, was a farmer in Oneida County, New York, first at Western and later at Whitesboro. Though accounts differ as to which of these was the birthplace of the young Daniel, evidence favors the former place.
Education
In Whitesboro, Daniel attended the common schools and the Oneida Institute, and here, in 1829, he began the study of medicine with Dr. R. S. Sykes. Shortly afterward he moved to the near-by town of Rome, continuing his medical studies with Dr. Harold H. Pope.
His medical course was taken at Fairfield Medical College, Fairfield, New York, followed by two courses at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1834. Daniel Brainard returned after graduation to the latter place, where though nominally in practise, he devoted two years to the study of languages and science.
Career
Early in 1836, Daniel Brainard started for the far west and the spring of that year found him in Chicago, a town of between two and three thousand inhabitants. Here he established himself for practise. His early bent toward medical teaching is shown by his application to the state authorities in 1837 for a charter for a medical college to be named in honor of Dr. Benjamin Rush. The time for launching the medical school was not then ripe, so Brainard contented himself temporarily with a private school of anatomy conducted in his office.
In the meantime, after a somewhat discouraging start, he had won a firm footing in the medical practise of the fast-growing town. Not yet satisfied with his preparation for teaching he went, in 1839, to Paris where he remained nearly two years. His later work and his writings show how deeply he was influenced by his contact with the French school of surgery.
Returning to Chicago, he was appointed, in 1842, to the chair of anatomy in St. Louis University, where he delivered two courses of lectures. His early dreams materialized with the opening of Rush Medical College on December 4, 1843, on which occasion he delivered the introductory address. He was given the chair of anatomy and surgery in the new faculty, and he remained professor of surgery until his death, always the dominating figure in the affairs of the school.
In April 1844 appeared the first number of the Illinois Medical and Surgical Journal, which after various changes of name became the Chicago Medical Journal. Brainard aided in its foundation and for years contributed clinical reports and editorials to its pages. He also took part in the establishment of the first general hospital in Chicago in 1847, being one of three physicians who constituted its medical staff.
In 1853 he again went to Paris where before the Academy of Science he read a paper on "The Venom of Rattlesnakes; the Effects of the Venom, and the Means of Neutralizing its Absorption. " This was followed by a paper before the same society by himself and Dr. Greene on "Iodine as an Antidote for Curare. " Later before the Société de Chirurgie of Paris, he read a paper entitled "On the Injection of Iodine in Tissues and Cavities of the Body for the Cure of Spina Bifida, Chronic Hydrocephalus, Edema, Fibrinous Effusions, Edematous Erysipelas, etc. " At this time, he was made a corresponding member of the Société de Chirurgie.
At the time of his death he was engaged upon an extensive surgical work which remained unfinished. It was in the fall of 1866, while cholera was epidemic in Chicago, that Brainard returned from a short visit in Paris where he had left his family. On the afternoon of October 9, while lecturing to his class at the college, he devoted a portion of the hour to a discussion of the local cholera situation and of the precautions to be taken against it. That evening at his home he began an article on the same subject. Retiring in apparently good health, he was stricken with cholera early the next morning and died on the evening of that day.
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Views
Brainard early specialized in anatomy and physiology, and even before taking his medical degree, he lectured upon these subjects at Fairfield and at Whitesboro. He was a forceful public speaker and took an active interest not only in medical society work, but also in matters relating to his city and state.
Membership
Daniel Brainard was a member of the Société de Chirurgie and of the Illinois State Medical Society.
Personality
Daniel Brainard was tall, well proportioned, and strongly built. His portraits show a large head with long wavy hair and a strong face with a large straight nose, clear piercing eyes, and a heavy drooping mustache. He was a man of great dignity, very reserved, and taciturn to a degree. These characteristics gave him a reputation of being short-tempered and ill-natured.
Connections
Daniel Brainard was married to Evelyn Sleight of Naperville, Illinois, on February 6, 1845.