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NAME STEWART 1102 STEWART His most lengthy contributions to medical literature were articles on "Diseases of the Stomach," in Hare's "System of Practical Therapeutics" ; "Disease's of the Spinal Cord," in Loomis' "System of Practical Medicine"; "Diseases of the Kidneys and Lithuria," in Keating's "Cyclopedia of Diseases of Chil- dren," and "Diseases of the Stomach," in Sajous' "Cyclopedia." His most important papers were on "Some Phases of Gallstone Disease," 1903; on "Primary Tuberculosis of the Kidney with Special Reference to a Pri- mary Military Form," 1897, and the three already noted in which he called attention to a condition which had been unnoted in med- ical literature. Trans. Coll. Phys., Phila., 1906, vol. .ixviii, pp. li-Ivii. Bibliog., Solomon Solis Cohen, M. D. Stewart, Ferdinand Campbell (1815-1899) Ferdinand Campbell Stewart was born August 10, 1815, in Williamsburg, Virginia, where his father, Ferdinand Stewart Campbell, was professor of mathematics at William and Mary College for twenty years ; his mother was a daughter of Samuel Griffin, colonel in the Revolutionary Army and a representative from Virginia in the first United States Con- gress, when his brother, Cyrus Griffin, was president of the Congress. The change of surname from Campbell to Stewart was made in 1830 when the elder Campbell fell heir to estates in Scotland and became a British subject assuming the name and the arms of the "Stewarts of Ascoy." Young Ferdinand was educated at William and Mary, but went to Scotland with his parents in 1829 and studied under private tutors. Returning to America, he took up the study of medicine in the office of Thomas Harris, surgeon-general of the United States Navy; he graduated M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1837 with the thesis "Causes of Cardiac Sounds." He then went to Europe, studying until 1843 in Paris and in Edinburgh, at Edinburgh entering the office of John Thomson (1765-1846), professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh and surgeon-general of the British Army at the battle of Waterloo. From 1843 to 1849 he practised in New York. He had charge of certain wards in Bellevue Hospital, where he gave clinical lec- tures to a small class of his private medical students. When Bellevue was reorganized he was a member of the committee of medical men who drew up the plan adopted, and was appointed on the board of "visiting medical officers" made up, besides himself, of Willard Parker, James R. Wood and Alonzo Clark (q. V. to all). He was interested in and helpful in found- ing the New York Academy of Medicine in 1847; was secretary of the preliminary meet- ings which were held in his office and acted as secretary as long as he was in New York. From 1849 to 1851 he was physician of the Marine Hospital on Staten Island, appointed by Governor Fish. In 1855 the death of his father required his removal to Europe. His health had become poor and to improve it he became surgeon on the United States mail steamship Arago ; remaining in this posi- tion six months and in this time crossing the Atlantic eight times. In 1838 he married, at the American Em- bassy, Paris, Emma, daughter of Samuel J. Fisher, of Philadelphia. He had a son, born in Paris, and a daughter, the latter the author of the "Easter Books" for the young. His works included reports, cases, transla- tions ; he invented and presented to the Royal Academy of medicine, in 1843, a concealed bistoury, for operating on strangulated hernia. He died at Pisa, Italy, February 11, 1899. Information from Dr. Ewing Jordan. Med. & Surg. Rep., 1866, vol. xv, 249-253. Stewart, Jacob Henry (1829-1884) Jacob Henry Stewart was born at Peekskill, New York, January 15, 1829, and attended Phillips Academy in his native town, enter- ing Yale College later but not graduating. He graduated in medicine at the University of the City of New York in 1851, and from that date until 1855 practised with his father. Dr. Phylander Stewart, at Peekskill. In May, 1855, his health being impaired, he came to St. Paul, Minnesota. Through his skill and learning he soon gained a leading position and in 1856 was appointed physician of Ram- sey County, and in 1857 elected state senator. He received his commission as surgeon of the First Minnesota Regiment, from Gov. Alexander Ramsey, April 29, 1861. Dr. Stewart was captured at the first battle of Bull Run, while in the act of attending a wounded Confederate soldier. He was roughly handled by some of the members of the famous Virginia Black Horse Cavalry, but proved such a good fellow that they afterwards did well by him. He established a field hospital at Bull Run in Sudley Church, using the pews as beds, and the pulpit (with one of the church doors on its top) as an operating table. He was slightly but painfully wounded in the foot, when the engagement opened, but worked unremittingly, until taken prisoner.