Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1180

NATHAN SMITH (1762-1829) A practical essay on typhous fever. E. Bless & E. White 1824 88 pp. 21.2 cm.

When Dartmouth opened a medical department in 1768, Nathan Smith was appointed professor of anatomy, surgery, chemistry, and physics, and was, indeed, its entire faculty. A skilled surgeon, teacher, writer, and practitioner, Smith played a major role in the establishment of the medical schools at Yale and the University of Vermont, and the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. His most important written contribution is this treatise on typhus fever, in which he gives the first clear description of the disease.

Cited references: Cushing S291; Osler 3994

Gift of John Martin, M.D.