Identifier: lifelettersofnat00smit (find matches)
Title: The life and letters of Nathan Smith, M.B., M.D
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Emily A. (Emily Anna), b. 1840
Subjects: Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829 Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829 Education, Medical Physicians Physicians
Publisher: New Haven, Yale university press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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compliments to mypupils and inform them that I shall, God willing, bewith them again in May or sooner. Remember me inparticular to my brother and to every one with you inmy home. I am, my dear Sally, yours with the fondestlove and conjugal affection till Death, which God grantmay be at a late day. Adieu, my dear, for a little. Nathan Smith.February 23, 1797. Edinburgh. While in Edinburgh, Dr. Smith purchased and senthome to the college library medical books to the valueof thirty pounds sterling and brought with him appara-tus for anatomy, surgery, and chemistry which hedeemed indispensable for commencing the proposedmedical institution and which he hoped the trusteesof Dartmouth might purchase, as he could ill affordto bear the expense himself. After leaving Edinburgh, Dr. Smith spent threemonths in London, where he engaged in hospital workwith eminent physicians, before returning to Bostonon the ship Apollo early in September, 1797. In this visit of nine months to older countries Dr.
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z z c o o o H «! 1 ffi 72 U o c £ >> <) rt I c H c3 < ^ fc ts O £ i-l P <! w X o H +-> 3 fao 3 w « O of Nathan Smith 21 Smith acquired a great deal of valuable information onmedical subjects as well as a broader knowledge of theworld in general, and the good impression made by theenterprising young American upon foreign friends wasattested by letters from them to other American phy-sicians, as also by a diploma, which was sent to him in1797 on his return, from the Medical Society of Lon-don, accompanied by a notice of his election as Corre-sponding Member of their organization. On Dr. Smiths arrival at his home in Cornish henot only found his wife and Solon well, but he hadacquaintance to make with a second son, Nathan RynoSmith, a fine boy four months old, who was born onMay 21, 1797. A pretty story is told of this happymeeting: When Mrs. Smith was preparing for thefat

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