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which station he occupied, with the most distinguished honor 
and usefulness, till his deat 
r. Smith possessed a powerful and active intellect. He lov- 
ed knowledge in every form, and gave the whole of his influ- 
ence to promote its progress. His industry was unwearied, 
and his mind was always employed, even when he was en- 
gazed in his active duties. 
As a practical surgeon he had few equals, and his’ opera- 
tlons—numerous, various, and often dangerous—were re- 
markably successful. 
As a practitioner of medicine, he was devoted ; full of re- 
source, and so absorbed in the case before him that he rarely 
despaired while life continued. : 
Ithough not indifferent to the rewards of his profession, 
they seem never to have been his primary object. 
The writer of this brief notice speaks from personal knowl- 
edge, when he states, that Dr. Smith was equally prompt 
to leave his repose at midnight in a winter’s tempest, to 
resort to the bed side of a suffering African, who could give 
him no reward, as to that of the most wealthy and munificent 
patient. 
With him, duty was discharged as much from impulse as 
from principle ; and both conspired to produce prompt, vig- 
orous and unremitting effort. he kindness of his temper 
was inexhaustible ; the suffering infant was watched with as 
valued adult ; and in anxi 
versation—holding the female character in hig a- 
tion, and uniting assiduity with purity—he was the favorite 
of a wider circle of personal acquaintances ’ 
than (as his respected eulogist observes) any other man 
probably ever enjoyed in New England. _ 
He did more than any other man ever did to extend med- 
ical and surgical knowledge in the northern states; and the 
