Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . a Rhode Island familyeven more numerously supplied with physiciansthan was his fathers. The subject of this sketchis therefore, in three generations, one of twentyphysicians on his fathers side, some of whom were ofnational fame, and one of twenty-five on his mothersside. He acquired his early education in the dis-trict schools and at the Bridgewater High School. He graduated from the Medical College of theUniversity of New York in the spri
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . a Rhode Island familyeven more numerously supplied with physiciansthan was his fathers. The subject of this sketchis therefore, in three generations, one of twentyphysicians on his fathers side, some of whom were ofnational fame, and one of twenty-five on his mothersside. He acquired his early education in the dis-trict schools and at the Bridgewater High School. He graduated from the Medical College of theUniversity of New York in the spring of 1892, be-ing among the twenty selected for an honor listfrom a class numbering one hundred and sixtymembers. Following his graduation he stood firstamong nine in a competitive examination for theposition of Interne at the Rhode Island Hospital,remained in that institution until May 1894, andthree months later opened an office in unusual amount and variety of surgical work hascome to his hands during his three years residencein that city, requiring and testing all the quaUties ofa true surgeon. As he has said, water will boil and. C- S. SMITH. bichloride will destroy germs anywhere, and someof his best use of the surgeons knife has been inthe treatment of hernia and appendicitis in themidst of surroundings that might well dismay thelooker on. Dr. Smith was so fortunate while In-terne as never to lose a typhoid patient, a resultwhich he attributes largely to a discreet, and yet amore than usually persistent, treatment by thesponge. In devising ingenious appliances for therelief and cure of spinal and hip diseases he hasbrought into play inherited mechanical skill. He isan ardent believer in the possibility of arrest of lungdisease in its earlier stages, and the sufferings ofmotherhood have led him to study closely how toreduce them to the greatest extent possible. Lately 68 MEN OF PROGRESS. he has made a successful debut as a is intensely devot
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