tution required a building for its
accommodation, it was through his personal efforts that it was
secured. The means were raised and the project carried out by Dr.
Smith, who, himself, on his own responsibility, furnished a large part
of the money. A part, as shown by the records, was also secured by the
same gentleman from the Legislature of New Hampshire.

"Dr. Smith was a man of genius. I hazard nothing in saying that he was
fifty years in advance of his profession. He was one of those
characters who was not only an observing man, but, rarest of all, he
was a _good observer_. Nothing escaped him, and when he had seized on
all the salient points of a given subject, he astounded his listeners
with the full, symmetrical character of his generalizations.

"As intances in point, let me briefly advert to one or two
illustrations. When Dr. Smith entered the profession, everything in
the way of continued fever in the valley of the Connecticut was termed
typhus. Dr. S. soon became convinced that while true typhus did
prevail, there was yet a continued fever essentially different in its
character, and so he came to differentiate between typhus and typhoid.
Noting carefully the symptoms in these cases, making autopsies
whenever a chance occurred, and observing the morbid changes thus
revealed, he soon found himself master of the situation. Then he wrote
an unpretending little tract, in which he embodied his observations
and his inferences. This brochure was undoubtedly the first
comprehensive description of typhoid fever written, and covered in a
wonderfully exhaustive way not only the clinical history, but the
pathology, of this most interesting disease. This noble record of
results, obtained by observations made mainly at Norwich, Vermont, and
Cornish, New Hampshire, was almost the '_Vox clamantis in deserto_.'

"Many years later, in the great hospitals of Paris, Louis made and
published his own observations in regard to the same disease, and the
whole medical world rang with plaudits of admiration at his genius and
learning. But in the modest little tract of Nathan Smith, the gist and
germ of all the magnificent discoveries of Louis are anticipated. And
thus it is again demonstrated that men of genius are confined to no
age and to no country, but whether in the wilds of New Hampshire or in
the world's gayest capital, they form a fraternity as cosmopolitan as
useful.

"I have recently learned an incident that still furthe