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ent of many lienors wbicli were not of his seeking, but were a tribute to the esteem in which he was held by the pro- fession in Canada and the United States. " His reputation was further enhanced by numerous and valuable contributions to the literature, particularly in the domain of neurology, to which he devoted special attention. A. M.

The Montreal Med. Jour., Nov., 1906 (port.).

Stewart, Morse (1818-1906).

Morse Stewart was born at Penn Yan, New York, July 5, 1818, of Scotch-Irish ancestry who had lived more than a hundred years in Connecticut ere moving to the then wilderness of West New York. His general education was obtained at a preparatory school in Pittsfield, Massa- chusetts, and Hamilton College, New York, where he completed the regular course at the age of twenty. He began medical studies with Dr. Samuel Foote, of Jamestown, New York, took three courses at Geneva Medical College, at Geneva, New York, and took his M. D. in 1841. After doing some post-gradu- ate work he settled in Detroit, Michigan, in 1842. The same year he was licensed to practise by the Michigan Medical Society. He was a founder for the first and second epochs of the Wayne County (Michigan) Medical Society; a founder of the Sydeham Medical Society of Detroit; a founder of the Detroit Medical Society (1835-59) and its first president.

Stewart was very active during the epidemics of Asiatic cholera, 1849-54 and recognized the first case of cerebro- spinal meningitis occurring in Detroit. Stewart was about five feet nine inches tall, of spare and slender build, large head covered with abundant hair to the end, high forehead, prominent nose, firm, sensitive mouth and chin, always a smooth shaven face, fine blue eyes pro- tected by projecting bone and eyebrows. His carriage and manner were character- istic of an old-time educated gentleman. He was crippled in many ways by deaf- ness, and a temper which occasionally got the best of him. Dr. Stewart married

twice; first to Miss Hastings, by whom he liad no children; second to Isabella, daughter of the Rev. George Dufheld. She died in 1888 leaving three sons and two ilaughters. Two of the sons, Morse, Jr., and Duflield, became physicians. Stewart and his second wife were large factors in the founding and conduct of the Detroit Plomo for the Friendless; the Thompson Home for Old Ladies; and Harper Hospital (Detroit). Except for them the money for Harper Hospital would have gone to endow the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. Morse Stew- art practised till October 3, 1906, when feeling weary he lay down to rest; and on October 9, quietly passed to the unknown. Most of his papers and addresses were never published, for, in the period of his greatest productiveness, the facilities for publication were meager and he had an extreme modesty.

"Epilepsy from Undeveloped Uterus." (" Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. i.)

"Criminal Abortion." ("Detroit Re- view of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. ii.)

"Case of Poisoning by Strychnia." ("Peninsular Medical Journal," vol. iv.)

L. C.

The Phys. and Surg, of the U. S., W. B. Atkinson, Phila., Pa.

Biographical Cyclopedia of Mich., West Publishing Co., N. Y. and Detroit, 1900.

StUes, Richard Cresson (1830-1873).

Richard Cresson Stiles was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and was educated at Yale College, where he graduated in 1851. He studied medicine with Dr. Turner, at the Kings County Hospital, Flatbush, Long Island, and took his M. D. at the University of Penn- sylvania in 1854. During the next two years he continued his medical studies in Europe, chiefly in Paris. "While abroad he married an American lady whom he met in Leghorn, a daughter of Dr. Thomas Wells, of New Haven, Connecticut. On his return to this country, he was ap- pointed professor of physiology in the