Charles Loomis Dana

Charles Loomis Dana (March 25, 1852 – December 12, 1935) was an American physician, professor of nervous and mental disease at Cornell Medical College.

The Charles Dana house, built 1807 in Woodstock, Vermont, is now designated as a historic building.

[2] In 1882, after he had completed his medical degrees and internship, Charles Loomis Dana married Lilian Gray Farlee.

In 1886, he became a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, serving as president, 1905-1906 and 1914-1916; chair of its Public Health Committee, 1911-1928; and a trustee, 1906-1934.

He held the post of professor of diseases of the nervous system and mind at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital from 1884 to 1895.

His Text-book of Nervous Diseases for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine, first published in 1892, went through ten editions until 1925.

He belonged to many social and literary groups including the Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Century Association.

He was a founder and member of the Charaka Club in New York (1893-1947), where prominent physicians gathered to discuss literary and historical topics.

In 1927, Dana was invited to deliver the John Hughlings Jackson annual lecture at the University of Edinburgh, and was awarded an honorary LLD.

[5] He spent the last year of his life at Dr. Robert Brockway Lamb's private sanatorium, Crichton House, at Harmon-on-Hudson, New York, a place that focused on "nervous and mental disease.

[5] Dana, Charles L. A Clinical Study of Neuralgias, and of the Origin of Reflex or Transferred Pains.

Dana, Charles L. “On a New Type of Neurasthenic Disorder – Angio – Paralytic or ‘Pulsating’ Neurasthenia,” JAMA XXIV(4) (Jan. 26, 1895): 110-112.

Dana, Charles L. Hysteria and Organic Disease: A Study of the Diagnostic Symptoms with Reports of Cases.

Dana, Charles L. Text-book of Nervous Diseases for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine.

Dana, Charles L. “Early Neurology in the United States: The Hughlings Jackson Address,” JAMA 90(18) (May 5, 1928): 1421-1424.

A Catalogue of Poetical Works written by Physicians with Biographical Notes & An Essay on the Poetry of Certain Ancient Practitioners of Medicine, Illustrated with Translations from the Latin and by Reproductions of the Title Pages of the Rarer Works.

“Charles Loomis Dana: An Appreciation,” Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 83(3) (March 1936): 249-251.