The Life and Letters of Nathan Smith, M.B., M.D. |
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Page 21 - whose duty it shall be to deliver public lectures upon Anatomy, Surgery, Chemistry, and the Theory and Practice of Physic.
Page 168 - Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him : for the Lord hath created him. For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head : and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.
Page 151 - Famous in his day and generation, he is still more famous to-day, for he was far ahead of his times, and his reputation, unlike that of so many medical worthies of the past, has steadily increased, as the medical profession has slowly caught up with him. We now see that he did more for the general advancement of medical and surgical practice than any of his predecessors or contemporaries in this country. He was a man of high intellectual and moral qualities, of great originality and untiring energy,...
Page 142 - ... profession. The assertion, that he has done more for the improvement of physic and surgery in New England, than any other man, will, by no one, be deemed invidious.
Page 125 - The chariots shall be with flaming torches . . . the chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Page 88 - ... from failure or inability to collect his fees, small as they were, of the founder of medicial schools and the professor, filling and filling well all the chairs in the medical curriculum, from all accounts a really great teacher, and withal deserving President Woolsey's characterization of him as " the most delightful, unselfish and kind-hearted man I ever knew, and we children all loved him.
Page 138 - I have always been saying,' he replied : ' nothing new. That if you take good care of yourselves you will always gratify me and mine most, even if you made me no promise now : and that if you neglect your own real good, and do not follow faithfully the course of life which I have urged both now and on former occasions, you will not do anything to any purpose, however much you may now promise.
Page 96 - Septentrionalis, was engaged as Curator of the Garden, but he did not enter upon the work on account of a subsequent, more important engagement. At a later period Dr. MC Leavenworth, a graduate of the Medical Department in 1817, who was a good botanist, was engaged to make a collection of indigenous plants for the garden, and at one time there was a good collection of such plants. The time and expense involved, however, proved to be burdensome and the garden after a protracted struggle for life perished...
Page 49 - No one will choose to advocate the measure and I expect they will, if not deemed too unconstitutional, revoke the grant made for that purpose last year; and if that can not be effected they will enact laws which will inflict corporal punishment on any person who is concerned in digging or dissecting. If the thing should take this course it will afford me a...