26 MEMOIR OP 



In the course of the session, difficulties, of which he 

 was neither the cause nor the victim, were generated in 

 the faculty, the class was small, and the prospects of the 

 institution overcast: under these circumstances, Dr. 

 Godman resigned, but did not at that time return to the 

 east. 



Not long before, the author of this narrative had issued 

 proposals for a medical journal, to be edited by the pro- 

 fessors of the college, and obtained a number of sub- 

 scribers ; but the distracted state of the institution pre- 

 vented the fulfilment of the design. To this enterprise, as 

 soon as he had resigned, Dr. Godman directed his at- 

 tention ; and assisted by Mr. Foote, a liberal and literary 

 bookseller in this city, in a few weeks issued the first 

 number of the Western Quarterly Reporter. Thus, if 

 not the first to project, Dr. G. had the honour of being 

 the first to commence, a journal of medicine, in the 

 Valley of the Mississippi. At the end of the 6th number, 

 of a hundred pages each, the work was discontinued, for, 

 previously to that time, its editor had returned to Phila- 

 delphia. More than three hundred pages of this periodi- 

 cal were from his own pen ; chiefly in translations and 

 reviews of anatomy, physiology, and medical jurispru- 

 dence. 



Dr. Godman resided in our city for one year only ; but 

 in that short period he deeply inscribed himself on the 

 public mind. The memory of his works still remains 

 with us. In addition to writing for his medical journal, 



