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Smith, Francis Gurney

physician, author, was born March 8, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. During the civil war he was physician in charge of a military hospital. He founded and established the first laboratory in which physiology was taught experimentally and by demonstration in the university of Pennsylvania, was the first president of the Philadelphia Obstetrical society, and vice-president of the American Medical association in 1870. For nine years he was an editor of the Philadelphia Medical Examiner. He contributed frequently to medical literature; translated and edited Barth and Roger's Manual of Auscultation and Percussion; edited Daniel Drake's Systematic Treatise; and was the author of Domestic Medicine, Surgery, and Materia Medica. He died April 6, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.