Brainard, Daniel
surgeon, lecturer, author, was born May 15, 1812, in Whitesborough, N. Y. He was the founder of Rush Medical college of Chicago, and occupied its chair of surgery from 1843 till his death. Under Presidents Pierce and Buchanan he was surgeon of the marine hospital, Chicago. He was a corresponding member of the societies of surgery of Paris and Geneva, and published a work on rattlesnake bites; Ununited Fractures and Deformities, the American medical association prize essay for 1854; and many articles in the Chicago Medical Journal. He died Oct. 10, 1866, in Chicago, Ill.