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NAME STEWART 1101 STEWART Medical College of Northwestern University. She was instrumental in establishing the Maternity Hospital, the Illinois Training School for Nurses and the Home for Incur- ables. Dr. Stevenson was the author of a "Text- book on Biology" for beginners which had an extensive sale and was used in the schools. In 1904 Dr. Stevenson had a cerebral hemorrhage, and after six years' iUness, died August 13, 1910, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Chicago, where she had been a patient for several years. The gathering in the hospital chapel for her funeral services was a notable one. Men and women prominent in every walk of life from East and West came to pay their last tribute to the woman whom they had admired and honored. xlfreda B. Withington. N. Y. Med. Record, June 10, 1876. Woman's Work in America, Mary Putnam Jacob;. "Distinguished Physicians and Surgeons of Chi- cago," Dr. Lucy Waite. The New World, Chicago, August 21, 1910. Personal information. Stewart, David (1813-1899) He was born at Port Penn, Delaware, February 14, 1813, the son of Dr. David Stewart, and was educated at Newcastle Academy, Delaware, settling in Baltimore about 1831. He was a member of the state senate in 1840 and on June 8 of that year represented the pharmaceutists of Baltimore in the founding of the Maryland College of Pharmacy. He was the first independent pro- fessor of pharmacy in the United States and lectured at the University of Maryland on that branch until 1847, where he took his M. D. in 1844. With Drs. Prick, Theobald and C. Johnston, he founded and lectured at the Maryland Medical Institute, 1847. He was chemist to the State Agricultural Society and professor of chemistry and natural philosophy and vice-president of St. John's College, Annapolis, 1855 to 1862. He removed to Port Penn, Newcastle County, Delaware, 1862, and died at that place, September 2, 1899. Dr. Stewart was one of the most enlight- ened and public-spirited pharmacists of his day. To him the profession of Maryland owes the introduction of many valuable reme- dial agents, as collodion, cod liver oil, glycer- ine, gutta percha, etc. Through a committee of which he was chairman, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty has the distinction of having been the first society in America (June 8, 1855) to propose the substitution of the decimal system of weights and measures for those then in use. Eugene F. Cordei.l. Cordell's Medical Annals of Maryland, 1903. Journal and Transactions of Maryland College of Pharmacy, 1860. Stewart, David Denison (1858-1905) David Denison Stewart, noted among his contemporaries for his improvement in the technic of electrolytic Wiring in the operative treatment of aneurysm, was the son of Frank- lin and Amelia Jacques Stewart, and was born in Philadelphia, October 10, 1858. He was a student of medicine at Jefferson Med- ical College and took his M. D. there in 1879. In 1885 he was assistant in the medical clinic of Professor J. M. Da Costa under Solomon Solis Cohen and two years later was appointed lecturer on nervous diseases in the summer school at Jeflferson Medical College. Both clinical and acquisitive instincts were highly developed and in later years he devoted himself especially to diseases of the stomach and intestines. He came early into notice when in Kensington, Philadelphia, by his skil- ful diagnosis in certain cases supposed to be cerebrospinal meningitis which he found to be lead encephalopathy caused by the local bakers using chrome yellow in cakes which were largely sold to children. He became infected with tuberculosis in both lungs and larynx in the latter eighties but made a complete recovery under careful treatinent. He died June 13. 1905, after an operation for appendicitis. Dr. Stewart was unmarried. His disposi- tion was sensitive and his reserve sometimes took the form of impatience. He was much beloved bv his patients and had a passionate love for good music. He had a supreine con- tempt for chicanery and for ad captanduni methods of all kinds. As to his appointments he was clinical lecturer on medicine at Jef- ferson Medical College; professor of clinical medicine in the Philadelphia Polyclinic ; phy- sician to St. Christopher's Hospital for Chil- dren, and to the Episcopal Hospital ; mem- ber of the Association of American Phy- sicians, and first vice-president of the .'mer- ican Gastro-Enterological Association. His first paper on the treatment of aneurysins was a contribution to the Amer- ican Journal of the Medical Sciences for October, 1892, entitled : "Treatment of Sac- culated Aortic Aneurysm by Electrolysis through Introduced Wire." His writings included many original papers, notably a third communication on "The Occurrence of an Hitherto Undescribed Form of Chronic Nephritis Unassociated with Albuminuria," which appeared in The Lancet (London), September 4, 1897, after being read before the Association of American Physicians, May, 1897.