filS tntelligcnce and Miscellanies. 



something more of the structure of the human frame. By 

 the recommendation of Dr. Goodhue, Mr. Smith went 

 through such a course of preparatory study, as would have 

 quahhed him to enter the freshman class in Harvard col- 

 lege, and was then received as a private pupil by Dr. G, 

 After studying medicine and surgery for three years, and 

 practising in his profession two or three more, at Cornish in 

 New Hampshire, he resorted again to Harvard, to attend the 

 courses of Medical and Philosophical lectures, under the 

 eminent professors, who adorned that institution, among 

 whom was the elder Dr. Warren. Dr. Smith received a 

 medical diploma at Harvard, and gained much credit by his 

 inaugural dissertation on the circulation of the blood. He 

 now returned to his practice with increased advantage, and 

 prosecuted it with so much vigor and success, that he was, in 

 the course of a few years, able to compass a very favorite ob- 

 ject — the establishment of a medical school in connexion 

 with Dartmouth college, at Hanover, N. H. This light was 

 raised in a region, where the darkness was before palpable, 

 and its rays shone with such lustre as to attract the eyes of 

 multitudes even at a distance. Professor Smith's school 

 soon became eminent, and it was esteemed both an honor 

 and an advantage to have been his pupil. In the earlier 

 years of this institution, Dr. Smith discharged the duties of 

 all the departments, and at the same time attended to an 

 extensive medcal and surgical practice, which led him, often 

 by night, almost always on horseback, and in every vicissi- 

 tude of the seasons and weather, over the rugged mountains 

 of that region, then comparatively wild, and furnished with 

 few good roads. 



Although engaged in an honorable and lucrative course 

 of professional duly — impelled by an ardent desire to per- 

 fect his knowledge. Dr. Smith left his practice and his 

 school, and resorted to Edinburgh, where and in London 

 he passed a year, under illustrious 'masters, among whom 

 were Doctors Black and Monro, and returned to his own 

 station with powers of usefulness greatly augmented. His 

 career was alike useful to others and honorable to liimself; 

 his practice was greatly extended ; his school was augmen- 

 ted to the number of sixty pupils or more ; and having 

 trained those vvho could in some good degree supply his 

 place, he accepted, in 1813, an invitation to a professorship 

 in the newly instituted medical department of Yale College, 



