The life and letters of Nathan Smith, , . Dr. Nathan Smith, Dr. NathanRyno Smith, born May 21, 1797, died July 3, , i8i7;, 1820; Princeton , 1862. The beginning of the brilliant career of Dr. N. has already been portrayed in this history andhis steady rise to great eminence in the profession iswell known. As has been shown, he assisted his fatherin establishing the Medical School of the University ofVermont, in 1822, and after filling there the Professor-ship of Surgery and Anatomy for several years, hejoined Dr. McClellan in 1825 in founding the Jefferson
The life and letters of Nathan Smith, , . Dr. Nathan Smith, Dr. NathanRyno Smith, born May 21, 1797, died July 3, , i8i7;, 1820; Princeton , 1862. The beginning of the brilliant career of Dr. N. has already been portrayed in this history andhis steady rise to great eminence in the profession iswell known. As has been shown, he assisted his fatherin establishing the Medical School of the University ofVermont, in 1822, and after filling there the Professor-ship of Surgery and Anatomy for several years, hejoined Dr. McClellan in 1825 in founding the JeffersonMedical School of Philadelphia where for two yearshe held the Professorship of Anatomy, before accept-ing the call of the University of Maryland to becomeits Professor of Anatomy. Here by an exchange withProfessor John B. Davidge he was almost immediatelytransferred to the Professorship of Surgery. Except for an interval of three years, from 1837 to1840, when he served as Professor of Surgery in theTransylvania School of Kentucky, Dr. Nathan Dr. Nathan Ryno SmithSecond Son of Dr. Nathan Smith of Nathan Smith 15Q Smith devoted his splendid energy to the interests ofhis work in Baltimore. He was a great surgeon, a learned and interestingteacher, as well as an able writer and an ingeniousinventor of surgical instruments. By inheritance fromhis father, Dr. Smith possessed a remarkable acutenessof perception and promptness of action, and his manyfine qualities, together with a commanding presence,obtained for him from his students the title of TheEmperor. So beloved was this great physician thatthe name of Professor Nathan R. Smith was a house-hold word throughout the State of Maryland. Among his inventions, Dr. Smith himself regardedhis anterior splint as his chief contribution to surgicalappliances, but hardly second in importance to thesurgeon was his lithotome, to which his son, Dr. AlanP. Smith, attributed much of his own phenomenal suc-cess in lithotomy. Dr. Nathan R. Smit
Size: 1369px × 1825px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpubli, booksubjectphysicians
