He received prizes and awards including gold medals in anatomy and physiology, materia medica and therapeutics, midwifery, surgery, medicine and the Atkinson-Morley surgical scholarship in 1862.
The university supplied jars and the hospital provided cases from where the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology developed.
[13][14][15] In 1897, Smith Jerome published a paper from the medical department in the University of Oxford on the formation of uric acid influenced by diet.
[16] In the same year the Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Burdon-Sanderson, announced the appointment of Smith Jerome from 1898-99 as Lecturer on Medical Pharmacology and Materia Medica.
[19] He gave a public lecture in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on "Pharmacology: its aims and methods", which was published in The Lancet.
An article on medical teaching in the University of Oxford in the British Medical Journal in 1906[23] included: "pharmacology is excellently taught at Oxford, but it is only right to say that the credit for this belongs not to the University, but to the lecturer, Dr. Smith Jerome, in his teaching capacity, presents the picture, said by the ancients to be pleasing to the gods, of a good man struggling with adversity.
He lectures, prepares solutions, makes the arrangements for experiments and directs the practical work of his students in a sort of out-house in the Museum ground which is little better than a shed.