Dain Tasker (American, 1872–1964)

LOT ID: 66908

Desert Candle, 1937

Silver Print, gelatin silver print

12 х 15 in. cm.

Signed, on mount recto

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image: 12 x 15 inches, 30.5 x 38.1 cm
mat: 20 x 24 inches, 50.8 x 61 cm

Dain Tasker was a pioneering doctor of osteopathy in California through the first half of the 20th century. His hobby was photography and he employed x-ray technology to produce many of his images.

Dain Tasker, D.O., [American, 1872-1964] looked at his half century of practicing and promoting osteopathy in California as the “Fifty golden years”. His account provides an exemplar of osteopathic professional development during the beginning years of osteopathy in California. Since he spent most of his career to establish osteopathy in California, his brief summary illuminates those pioneering years (chapter 66 of Dain Tasker’s unpublished manuscript, “A History of Osteopathy in California”).

Dain Tasker’s mother was a practical nurse who later became an osteopathic physician herself. He briefly wrote about his adolescence and high school years, mainly to point out his interest in anatomy, apparent already in those early years.

For health reasons he moved to Riverside in California in 1892 and worked as a ranch hand, saving his money to become a doctor. A letter by his mother, describing osteopathy, influenced Dain Tasker deeply in that he changed his plans from becoming an M.D. to studying osteopathy. He graduated from the Pacific College of Osteopathy in 1898 and immediately joined the faculty of that college. He did post-graduate work at the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville where he also joined the faculty. He married Cora Newell, D.O. and they practiced together.

Dr. Dain Tasker was instrumental in organizing the California Osteopathic Association. The purpose of the COA was to establish better practice rights. He wrote that “he finally succeeded in getting a law through that allowed for a State Board of Examiners.” Dr. Tasker became president of the first Board of Osteopathic Examiners. In 1907 a composite Board was enacted and Dr. Tasker became its president in 1909.

For 21 years he served on various Boards of Osteopathic Medical Examiners in California. He also was President of COA in 1901 and 1907.

He taught Principles of Osteopathy at the Pacific College and published his lectures, with illustrations, in 1903. This book went through five editions and served as text book in all recognized colleges.

During WWI Dr. Tasker served on a national committee of the AOA to obtain recognition for D.O.s by the Army Medical Corps.

He realized the need for more osteopathic hospitals and served as a roentgenologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles from 1925 to 1947. His hobby was color photography. Many of his X-ray photos of flowers resembled delicate etchings.[www.lib.uci.edu/themerger/mds-and-dos-in-early-california.html]

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