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NAME SMITH 1064 SMITH Sir Henry Thompson, London, in 1883 bene- fited and encouraged him, and he returned to active practice but the following year de- structive adenoma of the prostate gland from which he had suffered for some time com- pelled him to give up work, though his in- terest in the world outside continued until three days before his death on Decemberl4, 1885. He held many appointments and member- ships, notably resident physician to the Penn- sylvania Hospital ; visiting obstetrician to the Philadelphia Hospital; consulting physician to the Woman's Hospital. The real founder of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, he was its president in 1874-76; also a founder of the American Gynecological Society and its president in 1884, fellow of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia; president of the County Medical Society, Philadelphia, and honorary member of the British Gynecological Society. He was the leading obstetrician of his time. Among his writings are : "Retarded Dila- tation of the Os Uteri in Labor," 1877; "Pen- dulum Leverage of the Obstetric Forceps," 1878; "An Improved Speculum," 1869; "The Present Aspect of the Puerperal Diseases," 1884. and other articles descriptive of surgical appliances of his own invention. Amer. Jour. Obstet., New York, 1S86, vol, xix, W. Savery. Med. News, Phila., 1R85, vol. xlvii. Trans. Amer. Gvn. Soc., N. Y., 1886, vol. xi, T. Parvin, 422-447, Portrait. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, Phila., 1886. vol. xxiii. Trans. Coll. Phys., Phila., 1887. .^mer. Jour. Obstet., N. Y., 1908, 605. There is a Portrait in the album of the Amer. Gyn. Soc., 1876-1900, Phila., 1901. Smith, Andrew Heermance (1837-1910) Andrew Heermance Smith, for more than fifty years a medical practitioner in New York City and author of many monographs on medical subjects, was born at Charlton, Sara- toga County, New York, August 27, 1837. He was educated at Ballston Spa Institute, Union College and College of Physicians and Sur- geons, New York, where he took his M. D. in 1858. Union College gave him an honorary A. M. in 1889. He studied medicine also in the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin. He was the son of Archibald and Cornelia Heer- mance. At the close of the Civil War, in which he served with credit, Dr. Smith resumed the practice of medicine. He was physician to St. Luke's and Presbyterian hospitals and surgeon to the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. At the time of his death he also was consulting physician to several other hospitals. Dr. Smith was president of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1903-04, and had affiliations with numerous other societies and clubs. In 1884 he married Jane T. Sheldon. He died at his home in New York City on April 8, 1910, of arteriosclerosis. Among his writings should be noted : "Oxy- gen Gas as a Remedy in Disease" (Prize Essay), New York City, 1870; "The Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure, Including the Caisson Disease" (Prize Essay), New York, 1873; "Supplementary Rectal Alimentation and Especially by Defibrinated Blood," 1879; "The Influence of Barometric Changes upon the Body in Health and Disease," 1881; "The Physiological, Pathological and Therapeutical effects of Compressed Air," 1886. Boston Evening Transcript, April, 1910. Surg. -gen's Cat., Wash., D. C. Who's Who in America, vol v. Smith, Andrew Murray (1826-1896) Andrew Murray Smith, of Williamstown, Massachusetts, was the author of "Medicine in Berkshire" (Book of Berkshire, Pittsfield, 1890), a pamphlet of seventy pages that sketched the careers of many of the noted physicians of Berkshire County from its set- tlement to recent times. Born in Williamstown November 7, 1826, he was the son of Dr. Samuel Smith and his wife Betsey, daughter of Dr. William Towner, all of that town, the seat of Williams Col- lege. After studying at the Lenox Academy he graduated from Williams College in 1846 and from the Berkshire Medical Institution, formerly connected with Williams, in 1847. Dr. Smith had a large practice in his native town and in the surrounding country, keep- ing many horses busy and making long trips. For a year and a half during the Civil War he served as assistant surgeon and surgeon to the 40th Massachusetts Regiment. Follow- ing the war, he returned to practise in Wil- liamstown, was a factor in the social life of his church and his Masonic lodge, and acted for the last ten years of his life as chairman of the school committee. Rheu- matism finally checked his outdoor activities and he gave more time to reading, of which he was very fond, especially the classics, and he found time to delve into the history of medicine in his vicinity. His paper, "Medi- cine in Berkshire," was read before the Berk- shire Historical and Scientific Society of- Pittsfield. He married Laura M. Hosford of Williams- town in 1846. They had two sons. Dr. Smith died in Williamstown, October 25, 1896. Boston. Med. & Surg. Jour.. 1896, vol. cxxxv, 535 Information from Clarence M. Smith, a son.