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series of letters to his children; these were gathered up and in 1870
published by his son Charles as Pioneer Life in Kentucky. A Series of
Reminisceniial Letters from Daniel Drake, M.D., of Cincinnati, to his
ChiUreft (Cincinnati). These letters are being republished by Henry
Schuman, with a biographical foreword by J. Christian Bay.
^^ It has been said that Daniel Drake was "predestined for the medical
profession" by his father.
Isaac Drake had met Dr. Goforth, one of the
original party of emigrants from Nev/ Jersey, on the journey down the
Ohio River. Half jokingly, half in earnest, he told Dr. Goforth that
Daniel, then not quite three years old, should some day become a doctor,
and that Dr. Goforth should be his teacher.
*^ Juettner, Daniel Drake, 20.
43 Ihid., 22.
** Ibid., 24, for a facsimile of this diploma.
*^ That Drake had no intention of staying when he accepted the
Jeflferson appointment might be inferred from his continuing to edit
his Western Journal, published in Cincinnati, in which he stated more
than once that his "associations are all in the West" and that he expected
"to live on this side of the mountains."
^* Juettner, "Rise of Medical Colleges in the Ohio Valley," Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Society Publications, XXII (1913), 488.
The crisis in the Medical College of Ohio and the organization of the
rival school is reviewed by Drake in the Wester! Journal, IX (1836),
169-203. No doubt one of the weaknesses of the Medical College of
Ohio was that it was not connected with any college or university; it
was, as Drake said, "perhaps the only separate and independent medical
school in the United States."
^^ Dr. Emmet F. Horine, "A History of the Louisville Medical Institute
and of the estabhshment of the University of Louisville and its
School of Medicine 1833-1846," Filson Chth History Quarterly, VII
(1933), 133-47; WiUiam Cassell Mallalieu, "Origins of the University
of Louisville," ibid., XII (1938), 34-5.
4^ For full title and description see later in this chapter.
** Mrs. Alice GufFey Ruggles, "Unpublished Letters of Dr. Daniel
Drake," Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XLIX
(1940), 203.
^^Ibid., 210-11.
^^ Howard A. Kelly and "Walter L. Barrage, Dictionary of American
Medical Biography (New York, 1928), 784-5.
^^ Ibid.; Packard, History of Medicine, II, 83 3-4; Lucius P. Henry
Zeuch, History of Medical Practice in Illinois (Chicago, 1927), I,
106-11; James Thomas Flexner, Doctors on Horseback (New York,
1937), 154.
°^ J. H. Walsh, "Early Medical Practice in the Illinois Country,"
Illinois Medical Journal, XLVI (1924), 199; Zeuch, Medical Practice
in Illinois, 543-53.