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NAME STEWART 1103 STEWART Dr. Stewart remained in attendance upon the wounded on the battlefield, when he might have escaped with the retreating troops, and was detained a prisoner at Libby Prison. His skilful care of the wounded doubtless saved many lives and he was treated with marked consideration by the Confederates during his captivity, as they allowed him to look after the suffering soldiers. When Surg. Stewart was exchanged, and paroled at Richmond, Virginia, Gen. P. T. Beauregard called him to him, and asked if he had a son. Upon re- ceiving an affirmative reply, the general re- turned the doctor's sword (which had been taken from him), saying: "when your son is old enough to understand, give him this, and tell him Gen. Beauregard gave back his fath- er's sword, in recognition of his bravery, in remaining at his post of duty, when the Union Army retreated." Dr. Stewart did not return to his regiment, as his place had been filled before he was released. Gov. Alexander Ramsey, upon Dr. Stewart's return to St, Paul, appointed him surgeon- general of the state of Minnesota, an office he filled during the remaining mustering of troops. In 1864, although a Republican, he was elected mayor of the Democratic city of St. Paul. In 1879 he was surveyor-general of Minnesota, a position he retained for four years. He was president of the medical staff of St. Joseph's Hospital. He died on August 25, 1884. Dr. Stewart married, on October 1, 1857, Miss Katharine Sweeny of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Three children survived them ; Mrs, Charles A. Wheaton, Dr, J, H. Stewart and Robert D. Stewart. BuRNSiDE Foster. Stewart,' James ( 1799-1864) James Stewart was the son of Charles Stewart, a wealthy merchant of New York City, and was born April 7, 1799. He began life as a wholesale druggist in Maiden Lane, New York, afterwards studying medicine and graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1823. He first practised in the city of New York, and married a Miss Gushing, and had four children ; one son and three daughters who survived him. In the year 1827 he founded the Northern Dispensary of New York. He paid special attention to the most obscure affections of the heart and lungs dur- ing several years of dispensary practice, and it is believed that no practitioner of New- York City for many years excelled him in accuracy of diagnosis. His essay on "Cholera Infantum," which was crowned by the New Y'ork Academy of Medicine with their high- est prize, is simply a record of facts and experiences gathered at the bedside through a long series of years. In the year 1839 Stewart first became known to the profession as an author, by the pub- lication of his translation of M, Billard's trea- tise on "The Diseases of Children," with an appendix of nearly one hundred pages of original matter. Stewart's treatise on "The Diseases of Children" was first published in 1841, and a second edition in 1843. His next work was entitled "The Lungs, Their Uses, and the Prevention of Their Diseases, with Practical Remarks on the Use of Remedies by Inhalation." In 1840 Amherst College con- ferred her honorary A. M. on him. He used every opportunity of making him- self acquainted with the effects of various professions, arts, trades, and callings on the respiratory organs, and presented the results to the profession in this work. He was also the author of several able articles and re- views in different medical journals, in par- ticular his essay on "Dropsy Following Scar- latina," in the third volume of the New York Journal of Medicine; and his paper on "Ani- mal Food in Cholera Infantum, and the Sum- mer Complaints of Children," and his "Remarks on the Resuscitation of Persons Asphy.xiated from Drowning," in the same journal. About the year 1853 Dr. Stewart originated a plan for the establishment of a hospital for children, and the institution was opened in 1854, under the name of the "New York Nursery and Child's Hospital." Though able to attend to his duties as medical examiner until July, 1864, chronic dyspepsia compelled him to retire to the coun- try to recruit for a few weeks, but he died September 12 of that year, aged sixty-five. Charles A. Lee. Trans. Med. Soc. State of New York, 1865, C. A. Lee, Stewart, James (1846-1906) James Stewart was the son of Alexander Stewart by his wife, Catherine McDiarmid, and was born at Osgoode, County Russell, Ontario, on November 19, 1846. He was edu- cated in the public school and at the Ottawa Grammar School, and in 1865 entered the School of Medicine of McGill Universitv, and