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The Philadelphia Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 1: June, 1827 (Classic Reprint)
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We have chosen the monthly period of publication, ours being, with one exception, the 'only instance of this form in our country. Without detracting from the peculiar advan tages of the quarterly journals, we may be permitted to say that a. More frequent momento is better calculated to keep alive a spirit of inquiry, and to command a faithful perusal of HS pages. - Its price, per annum, will recommend it to, those, even, who may already have been supplied with a me (heal magazine and will contribute to its extensive circulation.
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Treatment of Fractures of the Lower Extremity by the Use of the Anterior Suspensory Apparatus (Classic Reprint)
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Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries: With Plates and Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
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Nathan Ryno Smith was an American surgeon, teacher of anatomy, and surgery. Besides, he founded and edited the Philadelphia Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Baltimore Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery.
Background
Nathan was born on May 21, 1797 in Cornish, New Hampshire, United States, the second son of Dr. Nathan Smith by his second wife, Sarah Hall (Chase). The boy's middle name was selected by his mother from one of Ossian's poems, and throughout his life he was called Ryno by his family and intimate friends.
Education
Smith received his early education from tutors, but later was sent to school in Hanover. In 1813 he entered Yale College. Young Ryno, from contemporary accounts, was one of the leading members of his class, but appears to have been more attracted by literature than by medicine, for in 1816 he wrote a commencement play, "The Quixotic Philosopher, " in which he also acted. He received the degree of A. B in 1817.
After about a year and a half, he returned to New Haven to study medicine under his father, and in 1823 he was graduated with the degree of M. D. from the medical school at Yale.
Career
After studies he went to Virginia as tutor for the family of Thomas Turner of Fauquier County. In 1823 he moved to Burlington. The intense interest which the father had always had in the education of young men for the medical profession soon became a predominant characteristic of the son; for one of the first matters to attract his attention was the possibility of establishing a medical school at the University of Vermont. With the aid of his father, this project was accomplished and, at the age of twenty-seven, Smith assumed the duties of professor of anatomy and physiology in the new institution. Burlington was then a comparatively isolated community, however, and Smith soon realized that he needed wider experience than was afforded there.
Accordingly, he spent the winters of 1825 and 1826 at the University of Pennsylvania, then the leading medical school in the United States, acquainting himself with methods of instruction and obtaining more knowledge of anatomy and surgery. Here he met Dr. George McClellan, who gave private courses in anatomy and surgery McClellan, who was not associated with the University of Pennsylvania. Impressed by the ability of young Smith, he invited him to take the chair of anatomy in the proposed institution and Smith became a member of the first faculty of Jefferson Medical College, teaching anatomy there for two sessions. Among his pupils were Dr. Samuel D. Gross, who later became a well-known surgeon, and Washington L. Atlee, the distinguished ovariotomist.
During his short stay in Philadelphia, Smith devoted some time to writing; with his father and others he edited the American Medical Review and in 1825 he published A Physiological Essay on Digestion. His activities in Burlington and Philadelphia gave him more than a local reputation, and when the chair of anatomy became vacant at the University of Maryland, through the resignation of Prof. Granville Sharp Pattison, Smith was asked, in 1827, to occupy it. Accepting the position, he soon became a leading member of the faculty and also engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. In 1829, after the death of Dr. John B. Davidge, founder of the school, Smith was transferred to the chair of surgery, which he held, except for one comparatively short interruption, for almost half a century. That same year he published An Essay on the Diseases of the Middle Ear, from the French of J. A. Saissy, with a supplement of his own on diseases of the external ear.
He founded the Baltimore Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, the first number of which appeared in February 1830 with Smith as editor; it survived for only a year, however. About the same time he collected and edited, with a biographical note, addenda, and some of his own papers, the Medical and Surgical Memoirs of Nathan Smith M. D. (1831). In 1832 he published Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries, a second edition of which appeared in 1835.
In 1837 Smith was invited to give lectures on medicine and surgery at the Transylvania University, Lexington, and from 1838 to 1840 he acted as professor of surgery at this institution. Though he never relinquished his permanent residence in Baltimore, he severed his connection temporarily with the University of Maryland, since his new duties required him to spend about four months of every year in Lexington.
While on one of his visits to Kentucky, he met Henry Clay and a friendship sprang up between them. He was frequently called to pay professional visits to Washington. In 1869 he published Legends of the South, containing tales connected with White Sulphur Springs, Mammoth Cave, and other places. After 1869 his connection with the University of Maryland was nominal, and in 1870 he became professor emeritus.
Ill health forced him to reduce his practice but he did not relinquish it until shortly before his death. In 1867, at the age of seventy, he made his first journey to Europe, where he was received as a distinguished visitor by the surgeons of England and the Continent. On his return he began to write a treatise on surgery, which, however, was never completed.
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Personality
Tall and impressive in appearance, Smith was called by his students "The Emperor, " and the sobriquet soon gained such popularity that, in later life, he was known generally by this name. His imperial appearance was tempered, however, by a courtesy and charm of manner which endeared him to friends and patients.
Interests
When the press of work permitted, he read with pleasure Homer, Virgil, and Plutarch.
Connections
In 1824 he married Juliette Octavia Penniman, daughter of Dr. Jabez Penniman. He had eight children, one of whom, Alan Penniman Smith (1840 - 1898), became a prominent surgeon of Baltimore and was instrumental in obtaining from Johns Hopkins the gift to found the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His son Berwick B. Smith became a demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Maryland in 1852 but died in 1859.