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He took an active interest in medical societies, being a con- 
stant attendant at the meetings of the Medical Improvement So- 
ciety, and a frequent contributor of valuable communications. 
He was always a warm supporter of our National Medical Asso- 
ciation, and became its President. Through it he formed inti- 
mate ties of friendship with the leading physicians and natural- 
ists of America at its meetings held in the widely separated cities 
of the Union. He continued his labors as a practitioner until his 
age obliged him to recognize that every one must rest at last. 
TEACHER. 
But there is another function of the medical profession besides 
that of healing the sick, viz., the teaching their successors to do 
this in turn, for this art cannot be taught by a body of teachers 
exclusively devoted to such work, as in other professional schools, 
except in the preliminary subjects of anatomy, physiology, and 
chemistry. Instruction in all the advanced and practical branches 
must be given wholly by those who possess the requisite knowl- 
edge which is to be acquired only by prolonged experience in 
practice. Thus it is that the most eminent clinical professors are 
also the most distinguished and busiest practitioners. Dr. Storer 
was no exception to this rule. He gave his attention to teaching 
very early. In 1838 he founded, with the co-operation of 
Drs. Edward Reynolds, Jacob Bigelow, and Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, the so-called Tremont Medical School. At that period 
Harvard University gave only a four months’ annual course of 
teaching, the student studying for the rest of the year with some 
physician. This school gave systematic instruction of superior 
character throughout the year, and so continued to do until the 
medical department of the University made its own course con- 
tinuous. In this school Dr. Storer was an unwearied teacher, 
and a generation of our best known physicians will recall the 
personal enthusiasm he inspired in his pupils and the admirable 
quality of his instruction. In 1854 he was made Professor of 
Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence in Harvard University. 
He was an excellent lecturer, — clear, positive, practical, and al- 
ways interesting. He threw his whole fervent individuality into 
every subject he touched upon, and put it before the class in 
such a way that it became a live personal matter to each hearer. 
