Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

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MEMOm OF DR. A. P. STEWART. De. Alexander Patrick Stewart was Lorn at Bolton, East Lothian, on August 28tli, 1813. He was tlie son of tlie Eev. Andrew Stewart, M.D., the minister of the parish, who before entering the ministry had acquired eonsiderahle reputation as a physician, especially by his treatment of consumption. His mother, Margaret, was the daughter of the tenth Lord Blantyre. He received his general education in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Glasgow, where he studied in the class of Sir Daniel Sandford, and was dis- tinguished as a good Greek scholar. From 1828 to 1830 he travelled with his family On the Continent, and acquired a thorough knowledge of the French language. On his return he entered as a student of the Medical Faculty of the University of Glasgow, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1838. He held the appointment of House-Surgeon at the Glasgow Infirmary, where Dr. Perry was one of the physicians. And it was here that he made those observations which convinced him of the specific distinction of typbus and typhoid fever. After leaving Glasgow he pursued his studies for about eighteen months at Paris and Berlin. He then, in 1839, settled in London where he continued to practise till his death. In April, 1840, he communicated the results of his researches on fever to the Medical Society of Paris, and his paper, the present memoir, was published the same year in the fifty-fourth volume of the ' Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal.'