his life. Death Smith died at Richmond, Surrey on Whit-Monday 1873, and was buried at East Blatchington. Works Smith wrote: Scrofula: its Nature, Causes, and Treatment, 1844. The Periodoscope, with its application to Obstetric Calculations in the Periodicities of the Sex, 1848. Treatment of Sterility by Removal of Obstructions of the Fallopian Tubes. Pathology and Treatment of Leucorrhœa, London, 1855. He contributed to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Obstetrical Transactions, and Pathological Transactions. also papers On Quacks and Quackery, and a series of biographical sketches of London physicians and surgeons. Marshall Hall, a close friend, suggested that he study applications of the reflex function in obstetrics, and Smith wrote on the topic in The Lancet. The articles led Parturition, and the Principles and Practice of Obstetrics (1849), dedicated to Hall. Other lectures published in The Lancet formed the basis of his Manual of Obstetrics, 1858. In his time, these books by Smith, especially the Manual, became standard texts, alongside the works of Thomas Denman the elder, despite his relative lack of practical experience. Family Smith married Tryphena, daughter of Moses Yearsley, of Southwick Park, near Tewkesbury, and had seven children, two of whom died in infancy. Their son Giulio played for England against Scotland in the first (unofficial) international football match on 5 March 1870. References Attribution 1815 births 1873 deaths English obstetricians English medical writers English male journalists 19th-century British journalists 19th-century English male writers People from Seaford, East Sussex