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DANDRIDGE 281 DANFORTH In 1880 he was appointed surgeon to the Cincinnati Hospital, and in the saine year was made professor of surgery in the Miami Medi- cal College (recently merged with the Medi- cal College of Ohio to form the Medical De- partment of the University of Cincinnati). It is as the incumbent of these two positions that he will be most vividly remembered by his juniors in the medical profession of Cin- cinnati and the surrounding states. His lec- tures were clear, concise, ilhiminated by the sound common sense that characterized his ar- gument, and when the occasion permitted it, enlivened by a glow of that genial humor which always rose spontaneously from his heart to his lips. In 1887 he was appointed to the board of examiners of the recently organized Police Department. This position he held until 1896, when he resigned. It was during this period that the present high standard of physical de- velopment of the members of the police force was set. Although Dr. Dandridge's position as sur- geon to the Cincinnati Hospital brought him, justly, a wide fame and membership in many learned societies, such as the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, the American Surgical Association and the Academy of Sur- gery of Philadelphia, it is probable that the professional appointment in which he took the keenest pleasure, and to which he unselfishly devoted the greatest amount of time and effort was his service at the Episcopal Free Hospital for Children. His gentle and kindly disposition was seen at its best in the wards of this most excellent charity, to which he was one of the surgeons for many years. Although no lectures to students were conducted in this institution, surgical literature was enriched by Dr. Dand- ridge by many papers on the surgical diseases of the bones and joints, the necessary observa- tions for which were acquired in the wards and operating room of this hospital. In 1909 he resigned his position as surgeon to the Cincinnati Hospital, and accepted an ap- pointment on the board of medical directors of that institution. Twenty-five years previ- ously his father had been a member of the governing body of the hospital, having served on the board of trustees for a number of years. In addition to the professional appointments and honors already recorded. Dr. Dandridge was at the time of his death, from diabetic coma, Nov. 6, 1910, a member of the Cincin- nati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Asso- ciation, the Southern Surgical and Gynecologi- cal Association, and an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Surgery of Philadelphia. He was never married. Christian R. Holmes. Cincinnati Research Soc'y, The Dandridge Volume, 1912. chap. i. Danforth, Isaac Newton (1835-1911). Isaac Newton Danforth, medical teacher and biographer, was a descendant of Nicholas Dan- forth, who landed in Massachusetts Bay in 1634. His paternal grandfather and three uncles were physicians before him. He was born in Barnard, Vermont, Noveinber 5, 1835, passed a colorless childhood on his father's farm, worked in grocery and drug stores, studied medicine with his uncle. Dr. Samuel Parkman Danforth, in Royalton, Vermont, and graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School in 1862, receiving also the honorary degree of A. M. from that school in 1881. After four years of practice in Greenfield, New Hamp- shire, and serving for a short time as interne at the Hartford (Conn.) Retreat for the In- sane, and attending lectures in Philadelphia, he settled in Chicago. There he married, June 9, 1869, Elizabeth Skelton, whom he had met at the Centenary Methodist Church, of which he was a lifelong member. He early acquired a microscope and began the study of pathology, becoming pathologist to St. Luke's Hospital and lecturer on path- ology at Rush Medical College in 1870, posi- tions he held until 1881. His work in the Northwestern University Medical School began in 1882, when he was made professor of pathology, and he continued in this position for nineteen years ; and for four years thereafter he was dean of the faculty and professor of internal medicine. As a lecturer he was fluent, often witty and always bright and interesting. For the first ten years of the existence of Wesley Hospital he was chief of its medical staflf. For many years he was pathologist to the Cook County Hospital, and consulting physi- cian to various hospitals in Chicago. Besides membership in many societies he was presi- dent of the Chicago Pathological Society and first president of the Society of Medical His- tory of Chicago. Following the death of his wife, in 1895, he married a second time, June 7, 1898, Mrs. Mary A. Barnes. Dr. Danforth was a frequent contributor to medical literature, and more especially in later years on the lines of medical history and biog- raphy; in 1907 his life of Nathan Smith Davis was published. Dr. Danforth's chief recreation