lve years he was the actual manager and the only professor
in the institution, giving three lectures each day, for five days in
the week, through the term of ten to twelve weeks. He lectured with
great acceptance in all the branches of the profession then taught in
the few kindred institutions existing in the country, and he
contributed liberally to the pecuniary support of the institution,
frequently to his great personal inconvenience. With these accumulated
duties to discharge, he faithfully attended to a large practice in
Medicine and Surgery, which was daily increasing, and severely tasking
his physical as well as his intellectual powers, and his fame, in the
line of his profession, soon placed him at its head; and his skill and
the history of his remarkable success, so frequently announced, and so
well attested, was early recognized and acknowledged, not only
throughout his State, but was scarcely limited to New England. By a
seeming universal consent Dr. Smith's name stood among the highest in
the medical temple of fame.

"Dr. Smith was not what the world would now call a learned man. We may
say of him, in this respect, what Ben Jonson said of Shakespeare: 'He
knew little Latin and less Greek,' but he had a mind and a power of
intellect which as eminently fitted him for a physician, as
Shakespeare's genius qualified him to become a dramatist of the
highest character; and whatever the occasion, whether it related to
the lecturer or teacher, to the surgeon or physician, Dr. Smith could
readily exercise his whole moral force for the enlightenment of his
pupil, or the health of his patient.

"The writer of these lines became his pupil in 1816; attending him
almost daily in his professional visits, to witness his practice and
listen to his clinical instruction."

After giving one or two instances of his quick diagnostic ability and
his highly successful practice, he continues:

"Dr. Smith was a great and good man. He never appeared to toil for
professional fame, but to do good to his fellow-man: and in view of
his virtues as a citizen and his justly pre-eminent skill as a
physician, one of his surviving pupils of those early days, who now
counts more than four-score years, feels impelled to exclaim,--Honored
be the memory of Nathan Smith, the founder, father, and for many years
the sustainer of the Medical Department of Dartmouth College; ever
recognized by all his friends and acquaintances--and their name was
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