DR. JOHN D. GODMAN. 13 



laborious practice to the study of natural history, 

 in which, from his ardent love of the subject, and 

 his minute, persevering investigation of it, he be- 

 came so distinguished. 



His intellectual powers had fitted him for a wider 

 sphere than that of a village doctor. His nature 

 urged him to enter on a field more worthy of his 

 gifts. He returned to Baltimore, with the hope of 

 being engaged in the university as a professor, but 

 found that arrangements different from what he anti- 

 cipated had been made. Here he married, and not 

 long "after received an appointment to fill the chair 

 of surgery in the medical college of Ohio, located at 

 Cincinnati. He was recommended by one of the 

 professors of the school in which he had been edu- 

 cated, in this emphatic language : " In my opinion, 

 Dr. Godman would do honour to any school in 

 America." 



The Ohio school not succeeding, Dr. Godman re- 

 sided in Cincinnati for one year only; but in that 

 short period inscribed himself deeply on the public 

 mind. The memory of his works remains. In the 

 midst of his varied scientific labours, he found time 

 to cultivate his social relations, and every day added 

 a new friend to the catalogue of those who loved 

 him for his simplicity and frankness, not less than 

 they admired him for his genius, vivacity, and dili- 

 gence. 



He returned to Philadelphia, and soon after began 

 to lecture on anatomy and physiology, his first and 

 greatest objects. His residence in this city continued 

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