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ble specimens of talents and learning in the most 

 renowned universities of Europe.'' 



Within the last fifteen years of the century under 

 review, medical publications have greatly multi- 

 plied in the United States; many of which do equal 

 honour to their authors and our country. Among 

 these the numerous and valuable works of Dr. 

 Rush hold the first place; and to no individual are 

 we more indebted for promoting, both by precept 

 and example, that laudable and enlightened zeal 

 for medical improvements, which has been so hap- 

 pily increasing, for a number of years past, among 

 American physicians. In a catalogue of our me- 

 dical writers also, Drs. Maclurg, Mitchill, 

 Bartoin^, Rams A y,Cald WELL, CuRRiE, and several 

 others, would be entitled to particular notice, did 

 not the limits of the present sketch forbid an at- 

 tempt to do justice to their respective merits. 



In the year 1797, a periodical publication, un- 

 der the title of the Medical Repository, was com- 

 menced by Drs. Mitchill, Miller, and Smith, 

 which, from the peculiar circumstances of our 

 country, may be considered as an important event, 

 in noting the successive steps of medical improve- 

 ment in the United States. In the premature death 

 of the last named gentleman, who bid fair to attain 

 the most honourable eminence in his profession, 

 this work sustained a great loss.* It is still, how- 



a "Within the last ten or twelve years, all the medical schools in the United 

 States have concurred in permitting their medical graduates to write and 

 defend their Inaugural Dissertations in the English language. Whether this 

 is to be considered as an improvement, or a literary retrocession, is a question 

 which it is proposed to discuss in another place. 



b Dr. Eiiiiu H. Smith was born in the year 1771, at Litchfield, in the 

 Slate of Connecticut, where his father, a respectable physician still resides. 

 He entered Yale College at the age of eleven; and after leaving that insti- 

 tution, completed his education under the care of the Rev. Dr. Dwight, 

 since President of Yale College, and who at that time presided over an 

 academy of distinguished reputation at Greenfield. After this he pur- 

 sued a regular course of medical studies under the direction of his father; 

 commenced the practice of physic at Weathersficld in 1792, and removed 



