DABOLL, Nathan see NEW-ENGLAND ALMANAC AND FARMER's FRIEND (#S-891, S-892).

S-313.6. DAILY, John Wesley.

First edition. Daily expanded the text and added eight leaves of plates in the 1899 Boston edition. The author was an 1864 graduate of the Cincinnati College of Medicine & Surgery, and an 1879 graduate of the Homoeopathic Hospital College (Cleveland). Daily practiced in Boston, and according to the 1896 4th edition of Polk, specialized in rectal surgery. He appears in neither the 1906 edition of Polk nor the 1906 American medical directory. Frontispiece portrait of the author.

S-313.7. DAILY, William.

“The author has, for the last sixteen years, made the vegetable practice of medicine his particular study; and has spent two years among the Indians in the study of herbs and their medicinal properties” (p. 12). On the following page Daily adds that he obtained his understanding of “the science of medicine” by attending “college”—presumably an eclectic medical college, though not identified. The “electrotype engravings” described on the title-page are modelled on the woodengravings of medicinal plants that illustrate Horton Howard's An improved system of botanic medicine (#1811-1816) and John Kost's Domestic medicine (#2161, 2163)—both of which were published upriver in Cincinnati. The exchange of woodengraved blocks among publishers or copying the designs of previously published woodengravings on new blocks were common practices during the period. Many of the woodengravings in the Howard-Kost-Daily repertory, for example, are reverse images of woodengravings published in Robert Eglesfield Griffith's (1798-1850) Medical botany published at Philadelphia in 1847.

S-313.8. D’ALFONCE, J. E.