Daniel Brainard, an American surgeon, born at Whitesboro, Oneida co., N. Y., May 15, 1812, died in Chicago, Oct. 10, 1866. He took the degree of M. D. at the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, in 1834. In the spring of 1836 he delivered a course of lectures on anat-tomy and physiology at the Oneida institute, and in the latter part of the same year removed to Chicago. In 1839-'41 he visited Europe for professional improvement, and was soon afterward appointed professor of anatomy in the university of St. Louis. In 1843 he took part in the organization of the Rush medical college at Chicago, in which he was professor of surgery during the remainder of his life. His reputation, otherwise than as a surgical practitioner, in which respect he held perhaps the most prominent position in the northwest, rests upon his advocacy of subcutaneous perforation of ununited bones for the cure of false joint, and the treatment of serpent bites and other poisoned wounds or unhealthy inflammations by means of alterative injections.

Besides numerous papers in the " American Journal of the Medical Sciences," and other periodicals, he published an essay " On the Treatment of Ununited Fractures and Deformities," the prize essay of the American medical association for 1854. For some years he was engaged upon an extensive surgical work, which was unfinished at his death.