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NAME SMITH 1063 SMITH promoted to the rank of captain, in 1882 to that of major. In 1897 he was made lieu- tenant-colonel and deputy-surgeon-general, and in 1901 colonel and assistant surgeon- general. From 1882 to 1902 Smart was on duty in the office of the surgeon-general at Wash- ington and was one of the co-editors of the well-known "Medical and Surgical History of the War." For several years he was a mem- ber of the faculty of the Army Medical School. During the Spanish-American War he did important work inspecting the camps of the American troops. In 1902 he was sent to the Philippines as chief surgeon, but a stroke of apoplexy compelled him to return to the United States. He died at St. Augus- tine, Florida, April 23, 1905. He wrote the "Handbook for the Hospital Corps of the United States Army and State Military Forces" (1889), a most excellent book, which was in use in the army for many years. "He combined with brilliant scientific attainments a great capacity for hard work together with an unfailing loyalty to •luty-" Albert Allemann. Jour. Assoc. xix. Journ.- .^mer, xliv. Mil. Surgs., Carlisle, Pa., 1906, vol. Med. .^ssoc., Chicago, 1905, vol. Smith, Albert (1801-1878) Albert Smith was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, June 18, 1801. He fitted for college at Groton Academy, Massachu- setts. His father was unable to send him to college and he went to work in his cotton mill where he remained five years, and saved enough to put him through his college course, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1825, and after working several years more he entered the medical department of Dartmouth, and took his M. D. in 1883. He began to prac- tise at once in his native town and in 1849 was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Dartmouth Medical School, where he continued to lecture until he resigned in 1870 and became emeritus professor. In 1857 he delivered his course of lectures at the University of Vermont and also a course at the Bowdoin Medical School in 1859. The honorary LL. D. was conferred on him by his alma mater in 1870, and the honorary M. D. by the Rush Medical College of Chi- cago in 1875. He was also president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. Dr. Smith married February 26, 1828, Fidelia Stearns of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and had three children, Fred. Augustus, Susan S., and Catherine B. As a medical instructor he was included ' among the first in New England. He devoted the leisure in the latter years of his life to the preparation of "A History of Peterbor- ough," a book which was published in 1876. He published a lecture on "Hippocrates" and another on "Paracelsus," besides various arti- cles in the medical journals and in the trans- actions of the state society. He died in Peter- borough, February 22, 1878. Ira Joslin Prouty. Trans. New Hamp. Med. Soc, 1878, H. M. Field. Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc. Phila.. 1878. Smith, Albert Holmes ( 1835-1885) Descended from Quaker ancestors who had emigrated from Yorkshire, England, in 1685, men who were among the earlier settlers of Pennsylvania, Albert Holmes was the third son and seventh child of Dr. Moses B. and Rachel Coate Smith, and was born July 19, 1835, in Philadelphia. As a lad he went to the Westtown School and Gregory's Classical School, entering at thirteen the freshman class in the University of Pennsylvania. He matriculated in 1849 and took his bachelor's degree in 1853; graduating M. D. in 1856 and studying under Prof. G. B. Wood (q. v.). When he left the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1859 he soon entered on a busy practice and in 1860 married Emily, daughter of Charles Kaighn of Kaighn's Point, Camden, New Jersey, and they had seven children. As a practitioner he was extremely popular, but his highest skill lay undoubtedly in obstetric manipulations and as a teacher, being noted for the practical character of his teachings and the large amount of information he im- parted. He was the inventor of several instruments and medical appliances, notably the modifica- tion of the Hodge hard rubber vaginal pes- sary, familiar throughout the medical world as the Albert Smith pessary. To pass over the part played by him in con- nection with the admission of women doctors to the County Medical Society would be to ignore an important chapter in his life. He became consulting physician to the Women's Hospital in 1867, a time when the acceptance of such a position meant strong moral courage. A resolution was offered to the College to expel any doctor consulting with women — a resolution aimed at those who were on the staff of the Women's Hospital. After a heat- ed debate this was rejected, but many of Smith's confreres were alienated from him. His powers of physical endurance were wonderful, but an attack of typhoid fever in 1880 formed a prelude to five years of work carried on in physical weariness. A visit to