Memoirs of the Life and Services of Daniel Drake, M.D., Physician, Professor, and Author; with Notices of the Early Settlement of Cincinnati. and Some of Its Pioneer Citizens.

x, 408, [12] pp. 8vo. Black leather spine over cloth covered boards, gilt titles and rules. A biography of the physician who taught at several medical schools, and founded the Medical College of Ohio (now called the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine) and the Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum (now called the University of Cincinnati Hospital) in the early 19th century. He was also well-known for his two-volume work on diseases of the interior valley of North America, which included important commentary on the natural history of malaria. Sabin 44369. Howes M264.