SPALDING, Lyman, physician, born in Cornish, New Hampshire, 5 June, 1775 ; died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 30 October, 1821. He was graduated at Harvard medical school, with the degree of M. B., in 1797. In 1798, while still a student, he assisted Prof. Nathan Smith in establishing the medical school at Dartmouth, collected and prepared chemical apparatus, delivered the first course of lectures at the opening of the institution, and published "A New Nomenclature of Chemistry, proposed by Messrs. De Movau, Lavoisier, Berthollet and Fourcroy, with Additions and Improvements" (1799). His medical studies were afterward continued at Cambridge and Philadelphia, and he entered upon the practice of medicine at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1799. He was given the degree of M.D. by Dartmouth in 1804 and Harvard in 1811. He devoted much attention to the study of the human structure, was a skilful anatomist, and his preparations, particularly of the lymphatics, were highly praised. In 1812 the College of physicians and surgeons of the western district of the state of New York, at Fairfield, Herkimer county, was incorporated, Dr. Spalding being elected president and professor of anatomy, and he made annual visits to this school. In 1813 he removed to New York city and, a few years later, resigned his position at the college. With Dr. Spalding originated the plan for the formation of the "Pharmacopoeia of the United States," by the authority of all the medical societies and medical schools in the Union. In January, 1817, he submitted the project to the New York county medical society. In February, 1818, it was adopted by the Medical society of the state of New York and ordered to be carried into execution by their committee, Dr. Spalding being one of the number. The first edition of the work was published in 1820, and a new one is issued every ten years. Dr. Spalding was a contributor to medical and philosophical journals, and, besides several lectures and addresses, published " Reflections on Fever, and particularly on the Inflammatory Character of Fever" (1817); " Reflections on Yellow-Fever Periods" (1819); and "A History of the Introduction and Use of Scutellaria Lateriflora as a Remedy for preventing and curing Hydrophobia" (1819). Dr. Spalding was active in introducing into the United States the practice of vaccination as a preventive of the small-pox. He was a trustee of the only free schools that New York then possessed, and aided in the establishment of the first Sunday-schools in that city.