Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1919- 
Dr.  Lyman  Spalding. 
375 
Dr.  Spalding  seems  to  have  had  a  remarkable  facility  for  friend- 
ship, and  made  warm  friends  in  many  parts  of  the  country.  One 
of  his  friends  and  subsequent  correspondents  was  Bishop  Philander 
Chase,  a  boyhood  acquaintance,  who  subsequently  became  Bishop 
of  Ohio,  and  later  of  Illinois  and  founder  of  Kenyon  and  Jubilee 
Colleges.  Dr.  Luther  Jewett  was  another  friend,  a  Vermont  worthy 
who  had  excelled  in  the  practice  of  medicine,  the  practice  of  law, 
the  gospel  ministry  and  the  editorship  of  an  influential  newspaper ; 
four  distinct  branches  of  effort,  in  each  of  which  he  achieved 
marked  success.  He  vwas  also  a  warm  friend  of  Dr.  John  C. 
Warren,  of  Boston ;  Dr.  Alexander  Ramsay,  the  famous  anatomist 
from  Scotland,  and  Dr.  George  Shattuck;  of  Boston.  He  wrote 
letters  to  John  Bell,  the  distinguished  Edinburgh  surgeon,  and  also 
to  Charles  Bell,  and  as  his  thoughts  turned  very  much  to  medicine 
abroad,  he  made  every  effort  to  get  an  opportunity  to  visit  Eng- 
land and  the  continent  to  better  fit  himself  to  teach  medicine.  He 
sent  a  petition  to  the  Secretary  of  State  of  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment, asking  that  he  be  made  a  special  messenger  to  carry  dis- 
patches to  France,  and  received  a  courteous  message  to  the  effect 
that  the  services  of  no  such  messengers  were  needed  at  that  time. 
He  visited  Philadelphia  in  order  to  fit  himself  better  for  his  pro- 
fession, and  there  saw  the  eminent  Dr.  Physick,  and  Drs.  Wistar, 
Rush,  Shippen  and  Barton.  He  writes  that  the  school  in  Philadel- 
phia had  350  medical  students  and  later,  when  in  New  York,  he 
contrasts  the  popularity  of  Philadelphia  and  the  large  number  of 
students  with  the  fact  that  New  York  had  only  about  100  medical 
students. 
There  is  an  interesting  chapter  in  Spalding's  life  which  has 
been  detailed  at  considerable  length  by  his  biographer  and  deserves 
mention.  In  1809  he  became  connected  with  the  Fairfield  Academy, 
located  at  Fairfield,  about  ten  miles  from  Little  Falls,  N.  Y.  Fair- 
field Academy  was  one  of  a  chain  of  academies  which  had  been 
established  to  promote  education  in  the  state  under  the  charge  of  the 
board  of  regents.  The  great  demand  for  medical  men  to  provide 
for  the  needs  of  an  ever  increasing  emigration  to  the  west  at  this 
time  gave  rise  to  many  medical  schools.  In  addition  to  the  New 
England  schools  founded  by  Dr.  Nathan  Smith,  there  were  schools 
at  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  and  Castleton,  Vt.,  in  addition  to  Harvard  and 
the  schools  in  Philadelphia  and  New  York.    He  was  appointed 
