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| | UPNE | Improve, Perfect, & Perpetuate |
 | | In his day, Smith was probably the nation's leading physician, surgeon, and medical educator, and well ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care. |
 | | A bright young man emerges from beyond the pale of the establishment to challenge aging dogmas, to build new institutions, and to shape fundamentally a modernizing profession. |
 | | Oliver Hayward and Constance Putnam here provide the first comprehensive biography of a seminal but neglected figure in the history of American medicine and, in the telling, offer a fascinating view of the dynamics of intellectual life in early nineteenth-century New England. |
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