The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . fathers farm, at-tending the district school in the winter months. Hewas still young when his father removed to Chester,Vt.,where he entered the militia service, and spentnearly tw
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . fathers farm, at-tending the district school in the winter months. Hewas still young when his father removed to Chester,Vt.,where he entered the militia service, and spentnearly two years during the latter part of the rev-olutionary war on the northern frontier of Vermont,protecting the inhabitants against the incursioiis ofhostile Indians. At the age of twenty-two, whileengaged in teaching school, he witnessed with in-tense interest and great steadiness of nerve. Goodhue of Putney, Vt., perform the diffi-cult operation of amputating the thigh of a patientat Chester. He then decided to become a jjhysician,and spent the next three years in diligent study ofmedicine under the instruction of Dr. Goodhue, whobecame his life-long fricud. After practicing his pro-fession two years at Cornish, N. H., he enteiedHarvard to attend medical lectures under , Dexter, and Waterhouse. At the close ofthe first term his dissertation on the Circulation of 154 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. the Blood was published by authority of the fac-ulty. He received the degree of from that in-stitution in 1790, being the only graduate that year,and the fourth of the medical department, and thenreturned to Cornish, wheie he practiced the nextsix years. Having special adaptability for his pro-fession, Dr. Smith soon attain-ed eminence in it, and becamewidely known. The majorityof the students of medicine ofthat period in New Englandand elsewhere in this countrywere unable to avail them-selves of scientific educationunder experienced Smith, knowing tha
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