Daniel C. Darrow
Daniel Cody Darrow (1895 – June 20, 1965) was an American
pediatrician and clinical biochemist whose research focused on fluid and electrolyte balance in the human body. He pioneered the routine use of intravenous potassium in patients after surgery, and in children with diarrhea.[1]
Life and career
Darrow was born in 1895 in
sanitorium in Saranac Lake, New York. After graduating, he became an assistant and then an instructor in the Johns Hopkins Medical School pathology department, where he met his wife, Louise de Schweinitz, who was a medical student at the time.[2]
Darrow became a
intravenous potassium to postoperative patients to prevent ileus, and in the treatment of children with diarrheal illness.[2][3]
Darrow received the John Howland Award in 1959.[5] He moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1962 as the director of research at the Babies Hospital and an adjunct professor of pediatrics at Duke University.[4] He died on June 20, 1965, while racing his boat.[2] In a textbook dedication, the pediatrician Donald B. Cheek described Darrow as "a teacher of teachers".[2] In an obituary published in The Journal of Pediatrics, Robert E. Cooke noted of Darrow that although he was passionate about the education of pediatricians, "He was tolerant of students, but they were rather terrified of him."[3]