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Daboll, Sherman

soldier, lecturer, jurist, was born May 18, 1844, in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He served in the civil war in the one hundred and seventeenth New York volunteers. In 1887 he was appointed quartermaster-general of Michigan, receiving the reappointment two years later; and in 1889 he was elected as judge of the twenty-ninth judicial circuit of Michigan. DA COSTA, JACOB MANDES, physician, author, was born Feb. 7, 1833, in the West Indies. He is a Philadelphia physician connected with Jefferson Medical college since 1864, and a specialist in diseases of the throat and lungs. He is the author of Epithelial Tumors and Cancers of the Skin; The Pathological Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia; The Physicians of the Last Century; Serous Apoplexy; Medical Diagnosis; Inhalation in Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Passages; Strain and Over-Action of the Heart; and Harvey and his Discovery.

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