American practice of surgery : a complete system of the science and art of surgery . roduced the substance of his fathers teaching. His most impor-tant invention was an anterior splint for fractures ofthe thigh. Nathan Ryno Smith (1797-1877) was a native ofNew Hampshire. He graduated from Yale College in1817, studied medicine under his fathers direction, andreceived his degree from the Jefferson Medical College,Philadelphia, in 1820. He located in Burlington, Vt.,and in 1825 founded the Medical Department of the Uni-versity of ^ermont, and was appointed its first professorof anatomy and surger
American practice of surgery : a complete system of the science and art of surgery . roduced the substance of his fathers teaching. His most impor-tant invention was an anterior splint for fractures ofthe thigh. Nathan Ryno Smith (1797-1877) was a native ofNew Hampshire. He graduated from Yale College in1817, studied medicine under his fathers direction, andreceived his degree from the Jefferson Medical College,Philadelphia, in 1820. He located in Burlington, Vt.,and in 1825 founded the Medical Department of the Uni-versity of ^ermont, and was appointed its first professorof anatomy and surgery. In 1826 he was called to thechair of anatomy in the Jefferson Medical College, Phila-dcljihia. In 1827 he became professor of surgery inthe University of Maryland, Baltimore, and in 1828 accepted the chair of medi-cine in the Transyhania University, Lexington, Ky. After twelve years servicehe returned to Baltimore as professor of surger\ in the University of Maryland. Heretained this position until 1870, when he resigned and became professor of chnicalsurgerv. He died in I^f: J. Fig. 12.—Nathan Ryno Smith(1707-1877). INTRODUCTION. 25 In 1817 the Medical Department of Transylvania University was establishedat Lexington, Ky., and the first opportunities were offered to obtain a medicaleducation in the Southwest. The founder of this school was Dr. Benjamin , one of the most eminent surgeons of that period. There was no medicalcollege west of the Alleghanies, and the need of facilities for medical instructionof a rapidly increasing profession in the great Southwest was very Yandell, the historian of Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky, remarks as fol-lows : The history of the Medical Department of Transylvania University . .would practically cover Dr. Dudleys career, and would form a most interestingchapter on the development of medical teaching in the Southwest. . created the medical department of the institution and directed itspolicy. The tes
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