Stephen Smith, M.D.
(The following are the personal edited research
notes of Michael Echols, the source of which may or
may not be completely documented)
SMITH, Stephen, physician, born in Onondaga county,
New York, 19 February, 1823. He was educated in the public schools and at
Cortland academy, Homer, New York, and, after attending lectures at Geneva
and Buffalo, New York, medical college, was graduated at the New York
college of physicians and surgeons in 1850, became a resident physician at
Bellevue hospital, and afterward settled in New York city. He became an
attending surgeon to Bellevue in 1854, was professor of surgery there in
1861-'5, and was then transferred to the chair of anatomy. He was among the
first to propose the organization of Bellevue medical college, and was a
member of its faculty for ten years. He published; "Monograph of
Seventy-five Cases of Rupture of the Urinary Bladder, "Hand-Book of Surgical
Operations" (1863), and " Principles of Operative Surgery" (1879).
Information from Rutkow, History of Surgery, p. 45
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