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DANA 280 DANDRIDGE H. M. Henry, and in the "Archives of Derma- tology," edited by L. D. Bulkley. Dr. Damon died in Boston, September 17, 1884. J. McF. WiNFIELD. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Dana, Israel Thorndike ( 1 827- 1 904 ) . If you look at a certain picture of this suc- cessful physician at the age of forty, you are struck by its interrogative aspect. He looks as if asking of you the answer to an interesting problem. The profile is bold, the forehead coming forward at an acute angle, and from that the nose, so that the whole effect is strik- ing and strong. The career of this man was noteworthy. He was born in Marblehead, Mass., June 6, 1827, the youngest of fourteen children of the Rev. Samuel and Henrietta Bridge Dana. Graduat- ing at the Marblehead Academy, he spent two years in an office in Boston, afterwards study- ing medicine at the Harvard Medical School where he graduated in 1850. He also took a course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Two years' study in Paris and Dublin fol- lowed and Dana began to practise in Portland, Maine, 1852, laboring there carefully. In 1856, with the assistance of Dr. William Chaffee Robinson, and Dr. Simon Fitch, of Portland, he established the Portland School for Medical Instruction, and continued with it, in one chair or another, until his death. He also established the Portland Dispensary for the treatment of the poor. From 1860 to 1882 he was professor of materia medica at the Medical School of Maine, and from 1862 to 1892, was for most of the time professor of the theory and prac- tice of medicine. He was very active in assist- ing in the foundation of the Maine General Hospital, and from its opening until he retired from practice, was at the head of the medical staff. In 1868 he was president of the Maine Medi- cal Association, for which he wrote the annual oration, and year after year a long list of care- fully written medical papers, among which were included one on dropsy, a second on the pathology of phthisis, and a very able one on pneumonia in 1893, when he was sixty-six. He gradually became interested in diseases of the heart and lungs, of which he made a specialty. He prepared the articles on dropsy and on in- flammation of the intestines for Wood's "Ref- erence Handbook of the Medical Sciences." Dr. Dana was twice married, first September 28, 1854, to Carrie Jane Starr, and in Oc- tober 26, 1876, to Carolina Peck Lyman, who cared for him devotedly in his declining years. He had ten children, of whom three died young. The lives of three others were brought to a sudden close after reaching maturity. The last and heaviest blow of all came at a time when his health was already beginning to fail from advancing years, in the tragically sudden death of his son, Dr. William Lawrence Dana, who, a most promising surgeon, went home from a medical meeting in the best of health, and was found dead the next morning. From that time there was to be no recovery for the devoted father. He became afTected about four years before his death with a gradual loss of mental power, and died April 13, 1904. James A. Spaulding. Trans. Maine Med. .'ssoc.. 1904. Dandridge, Nathaniel Pendleton (1846-1910). Nathaniel Pendleton Dandridge was bjrn in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 16, 1846. His parents were Dr. Alexander Spotswoode Dand- ridge, a physician of high professional and so- cial standing in his day, and Martha Eliza Pen- dleton. Both the Dandridge and the Pendleton families were among the early settlers of Vir- ginia, of English and Scotch stock, and are identified in many ways with the most impor- tant events in its history. Dr. Nathaniel Pendleton Dandridge received his elementary education in a private school in Cincinnati, and later entered Kenyon College, Gambler, O., from which he was graduated with the class of 1866. The scholastic year of 1866-67 was spent as a student in the Medical College of Ohio. In the summer of 1867 he went abroad, where he studied medicine in Paris in 1867-68 and in Vienna in 1868-69. At that time these were the most famous medical schools in the world. Returning to the United States with what was at that period much more than an ordinary medical education. Dr. Dand- ridge entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and after taking the winter course of 1869-70, received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution. Returning to his home in Cincinnati, in 1872, he was appointed pathologist to the Cincinnati Hospital, a position which he held for eight years, during which time he taught pathology as he had learned it from the lips of the great masters in Paris and Vienna, and enriched the museum of the hospital with many specimens intelligently and carefully prepared by his owrn hands. This appointment, coming so soon after his pathological and clinical studies abroad, laid a sure and broad foundation for that re- markably comprehensive knowledge of general surgery which later brought the profound ad- miration and respect of his colleagues and the profession at large.