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Hospital in Dublin and also attended the lectures at the Rotunda Hospital. He seems to have been liked there, for Sir William asked him to edit a work of his on "Aural Surgery," and in Lon- don also, Sir William Lawrence offered a partnership if he would remain in England. He gave him, too, an old engraving, very precious to Hewson, of William Hewson gathered with other students around John Hunter. But 1851 saw Addinell settled in Phila- delphia as a practitioner, first serving as one of the resident doctors at Pennsyl- vania Hospital. Three years later he married Rachel Macomb Wetherill, daughter of Dr. William Wetherill of Philadelphia and had three sons and three daughters.

In 1S72 he again went to Europe to recuperate, and was summoned to Mentone to treat Dr. H. R. Storer of Newport, Rhode Island, suffering from tibial abscess. The "earth" treat- ment, to which Hewson had added sul- phuretted hydrogen gas, was certainly successful in this case. Dr. Hew- son was himself suffering, occasion ally, from the effects of being thrown from his gig in 1S68, but for a long time his slight seizures were known only to the few, but finally a severe attack came on September 11, 1889, as he was going to his room. He fell on the stairs and in about an hour the end came. So passed away a cultured Christian gentleman and a scientist of no small rank, one so anxious to do his best even in delivering lec- tures that he first wrote then practised their delivery with one Wood, an actor. Among his appointments: Surgeon to the Wills' Hospital for Eye Disease; surgeon from 1861-7 to the Pennsyl- vania Hospital; lecturer at the summer school of Jefferson Medical College and contract surgeon during the Civil War.

His many papers to the various medical journals numbered:

"On the Prominence of the Eyeball with Sinking of the Caruncle and Semi-

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lunar Folds following the Ordinary Oper- ations for Strabismus." ("North Amer- ican Surgical Review," Philadelphia, 1858.)

"On Localized Galvanism as a Rem- edy for Photophobia of Strumous Oph- thalmia." ("American Journal of Medi- cal Sciences," Philadelphia, 1860, vol. xxxix.)

"Earth as a Topical Application in Surgery," Philadelphia, 1S72.

"On the Treatment of Fibroids of the Uterus by Means of Dry Earth." ("Transactions of the American Med- ical Association," 1S80, vol. xxi.i

"Immense Abdominal Tumors." ("Medical and Surgical Reporter," Phila- delphia, vol. xl, 1889.)

"Cervical Lymphadenoma treated by the Application of Earth." ("Medical News," Philadelphia, 18S2, vol. xli.)

Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1889, lxi. Tr. Coll. Phys., Phila., 1890, 3 9., vol. xii. (J. C. Morris.)

Hewson, Thomas Tickell (1773-1848).

Thomas Tickell Hewson, professor of comparative anatomy in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, seemed to have inherited a fair share of skill from his father, the celebrated London surgeon and anatomist, William Hewson.

How it came to pass that the son settled in America and became pres- ident of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, may be explained by the fact that when his mother, Mary Stev- enson, was young, Franklin lodged with the family and helped the girl with her studies. In 1774 William Hewson wounded himself while dis- secting and in a few days was dead, leaving his young widow with two little children and another expected. Thomas, the second boy, when eight, went to a school kept by William Gilpin at Cheam, Surrey, and stayed there five years, five months of this time being passed with Franklin at Passy, by whose advice the mother came to America and Thomas entered the College of Philadelphia and took