The evolution of medicine in Connecticut with the foundation of the Yale Medical School as its notable achievement / [Walter R. Steiner].

  • Walter Ralph Steiner
Date:
1915
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Credit: The evolution of medicine in Connecticut with the foundation of the Yale Medical School as its notable achievement / [Walter R. Steiner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    assimilate and store away easily whatever he read, being able to recall it, as well as appropriate data from his own experience, whenever necessary. His keen sense of observation was also commented upon by his associate, Jonathan Knight, his undaunted moral courage, as well as his kindness, assiduity and delicacy in the treatment of his patients.1 His affection for his family and friends was also a notable trait of his character, as seen especially in his recently published life. His wide range of personal acquaintances and friends made him the best known man in medicine and surgery in New England. In his lectures, there was no vain show of learning or any attempt at brilliancy, no as¬ sumption of dignity or superiority, but as hearers, both friends and students, found him then a man of true erudition and a manifest master of his pro¬ fession.2 His lectures were, generally, entirely ex¬ temporaneous and delivered in as plain and simple a style as possible.3 The better the students knew him, the more did they admire and revere him. In personal characteristics, he was of medium height, rather thin and spare. His dress was quite plain, very heedlessly chosen and carelessly put on.4 During this period he was instrumental in founding, with President Allen, the Bowdoin Medical School 1 Knight, Eulogium Pronounced at the Funeral of Nathan Smith, New Haven, 1829, pp. 16-19. 2 Smith, Life of Nathan Smith, p. 113. 3 Tully, MS. Diary, 1808, Yale University Library and Smith’s Life of Nathan Smith, pp. 53 and 94. 4 Tully, MS. Diary, 1808, Yale University Library.
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