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which station he occupied, with the most distinguished honor 

 and uset'uiness, till his death. 



Dr. 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- 

 gaged in his active duties. 



As a practical surgeon he had few equals, and his opera- 

 tions — 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. 



Although not indiflerent 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. The kindness of his temper 

 was inexhaustible ; the suffering infant was watched with as 

 much assiduity as the most valued adult ; and in anxious 

 hours, when hope and fear were conflicting in filial or paren- 

 tal bosoms — multitudes can testify, that this devoted man of- 

 ten spent the night by the sick bed, or, without leaving his 

 post, caught only a transient and often interrupted repose. 



Not only beloved and revered in his own fam.ily, in train- 

 ing whom he was very successful in the formation of intelli- 

 gent and virtuous character- — he was every where at homey 

 for he was every where welcome. Great in his profession — 

 rich in his stores of general knowledge — delighting in con- 

 versation — holding the female character in high estima- 

 tion, and uniting assiduity with purity — he was the favorite 

 of a wider circle of personal acquaintances and friends, 

 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 



