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That Smith made favorable impressions on these leaders in 

 medical science even before they heard his address was further 

 shown by letters later received. For instance, on May 25, 1916, 

 Dr. Harvey Gushing, surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham 

 Hospital, Boston, and famed as one of the great surgeons of all 

 time on the brain, congratulated Smith, not as a friend of Dr. 

 William Osier, of whom Dr. Gushing was later his authorized 

 biographer, but because of his own estimate of the value of 

 Smith's contribution to pathology. " I cannot tell you how pleased 

 I am," he wrote, " to have received your papers on your most 

 admirable studies. I remember with the greatest pleasure crossing 

 with you at the time of the Gongress in 1913, and have always 

 hoped that I might have an opportunity of calling on you in 

 Washington." Dr. Gharles Loomis Dana was professor of nervous 

 diseases at Gornell Medical GoUege, and author of a textbook on 

 nervous diseases and psychiatry. Dr. Adolf Meyer was psychiatrist- 

 in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and perhaps the greatest 

 American authority on combined neurology, pathology, and psy- 

 chiatry. On March 5, 1917, he thanked Smith for his " very 

 interesting and splendidly illustrated study of the crowngall " and 

 remembered " with much pleasure " their voyage across the 

 Atlantic. 



That Smith adhered rigidly to his role as a plant pathologist 

 was indicated by his description of his activities at the Gongress. 

 " The great XVIIth hiternational Medical Gongress has come and 

 gone," he wrote on August 17. The Gongress was 



voted by everybody a great success. There were general sessions, twenty 

 two sections for the reading of papers, a scientific exhibit, dinners, teas, 

 excursions, and all sorts of functions, all of which I cut out. I attended 

 none of the general sessions, and only one section meeting, that of General 

 Pathology, one p. m., to read my paper — the English equivalent of the 

 French paper — and did not go on any of the excursions. 



My exhibit was accorded ample and very satisfactory space in the 

 middle of one of the great exhibition rooms, close to Dr. Bashford's ^ 

 than which it attracted much more attention. Indeed, many distinguished 

 surgeons and physicians visited it and said it was "" the most noteworthy 

 and interesting of all the exhibits." I demonstrated it about 7 hours every 

 day to whomsoever would listen. Some nights I was talked out. Last of all 



^ Of the Imperial Cancer Research FunJ of England. 



