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Daniel Drake was born on October 20, 1785 near Plainfield, New Jearsey, United States, on the farm of his grandfather, Nathaniel Drake. He was the oldest child of Isaac Drake and Elizabeth Shotwell. His mother was a member of the Society of Friends. His parents were poor, and in April 1788 they migrated with some relatives and friends to Kentucky, landing at Limestone, now called Maysville, on the Ohio River, on June 10.
Daniel's parents early decided to make him a physician, and he was given all the schooling the wilderness afforded.
At the age of fifteen, in 1800, he was sent to Cincinnati, or Fort Washington as it was then called, to enter the office of Dr. William Goforth, a leading physician of that small village, where he remained four years studying medicine and Latin.
Feeling the need of more instruction, he went in 1805 for a term to the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania where he heard Dr. Rush and others.
It was Daniel Drake’s great ambition to be a teacher of medicine, and he returned with Mrs. Drake in 1815 to Philadelphia and took a second course of lectures at the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree Doctor of Medicine from that institution.
Daniel became a partner of Dr. Goforth. He returned to practise medicine at first in Mays Lick, but in 1807 went back to Cincinnati and became again the partner of Dr. Goforth.
The greater part of his life was spent at Cincinnati in the practise of medicine, with interludes of a few years during which he lived in Lexington and Louisville. He was, by general consent, the leading practitioner in Cincinnati during his residence there.
In 1810, he published a small book entitled Notices Concerning Cincinnati, its Topography, Climate and Diseases, which was the germ of his great work on the diseases of the “Interior Valley of North America, ” published much later, and of the widely known account published in 1815 and called Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and Miami Country, Illustrated by Maps, with an Appendix Containing Observations on the late Earth Quakes, the Aurora Borealis and Southwest Winds.
This small book of two hundred and fifty pages, more commonly known by its abbreviated title, Picture of Cincinnati in 1815, contains a careful account of the prehistoric mounds formerly existing on the present site of the city and is their principal record. It contains a great variety of other observations of all kinds, including those on medicinal plants, characteristics of the forest, meteorological data, and so on, and a brief historical account of the settlement of the city. It was widely circulated, and was translated abroad. These ventures were not successful financially.
He resumed his practise in 1816, and from 1817 to 1818 taught materia medica in the medical department of Transylvania University, Lexington.
His efforts, however, were frustrated by the jealousy of some of his colleagues.
He was expelled from the presidency by the faculty, on Marсh 6, 1822, was reinstated a week later upon the insistence of the people of Cincinnati, but promptly resigned and left the college.
After a brief period in Cincinnati, in 1828 he became a member of the faculty of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, returning the following year to Cincinnati and taking with him various colleagues to found a new medical school, to be a department of Miami University. This school, however, existed for but a year, when Drake again became connected with the Ohio Medical College for one year. Once more bickerings led to his withdrawal. He afterward established the medical department of Cincinnati College, which collapsed in 1839.
From 1840 to 1849 he resided in Louisville and was a professor at the Louisville Medical Institute, during which period he prepared his great work on the diseases of the Interior Valley.
In 1849, the Ohio Medical College being in a critical state, he returned to take charge of it for one year but resigned again, disgusted with the wrangling, and returned to Louisville.
In 1852 he returned for the last time to Cincinnati and took charge of the Ohio College, but he died shortly after its opening.
Drake established the medical department of Cincinnati College. He founded the Ohio Medical College (now the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati), in which he was president and professor of medicine. He planned the scheme of canals of Ohio and promoted railway connection with the South, which afterward resulted in that most successful municipal enterprise, the Cincinnati Southern Railway. He was an honorary member of the Philadelphia Academy of alural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Wernerian Academy of Natural Sciences of Edinburgh, Scotland, and of the Medical Societies of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Daniel's character of industry, honesty, temperance, accurate observation, and ambition, combined with a deeply poetical love of the beauties of nature, was formed under these influences.
In 1807 Daniel married Harriet Sisson.
