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NAME STEWART 1104 STILES graduated in 1869. He began to practise medicine at L'Original, afterwards Varna, Brucefield, then Winchester. In 1883 he went to Scotland, where he obtained the qualifica- tion of Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh. In the same year he returned to Montreal and was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Medical Faculty of McGill University. In 1884 he became regis- trar of the Faculty, a post which he held till 1891, and in that year was appointed to the chair of clinical medicine ; in 1893 to the combined chair of medicine and clinical medi- cine. In addition to these university appoint- ments he was physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital since its foundation ; and in 1903 was president of the Association of Amer- ican Physicians, and co-editor of the Montreal Medical Journal. He died in Montreal on the sixth of October, 1906, in the sixtieth year of his age. At the time of his death he was professor of medicine in McGill Uni- versity, and physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital. As well known in Vienna as in Montreal, he was the recipient of many hon- ors which were not of his seeking, but were a tribute to the esteem in which he was held by the profession 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 atten- tion. Andrew Macphail. Montreal Med. Jour., Nov. 1906. Portrait. Stewart, Morse (1818-1906) Morse Stewart was born at Penn Van, 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 Pilts- fieH, Massachusetts, and Hamilton College, New York, where he completed the regular course at the age of twenty. He began med- ical studies with Dr. Samuel Foote, of James- town, New York, took three courses at Geneva Medical College, at Geneva, New York, and took his M. D. in 1841. After doing some post-graduate 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 (Mich- igan) Medical Society; a founder of the Sydenham Medical Society of Detroit; a founder of the Detroit Medical Society (1835-59) and its first president. Stewart was very active during the epi- demics of Asiatic cholera, 1849-54 and rec- ognized the first case of cerebro-spinal men- ingitis occurring in Detroit. He was about five feet nine inches tall, of spare and slender build, large head covered with abun- dant hair to the end, high forehead, promi- nent nose, firm, sensitive mouth and chin, always a smooth shaven face, fine blue eyes protected by projecting bone and eyebrows. His carriage and manner were characteristic of an old-time educated gentleman. He was crippled in many ways by deafness, and a temper which occasionally got the best of him. Dr. Stewart was married twice; first to Miss Hastings, by whom he had no chil- dren; second to Isabella, daughter of the Rev. George Duffield. She died in 1888, leav- ing three sons and tvi^o daughters. Two of the sons, Morse, Jr., and Duffield, became physicians. Stewart and his second wife were large factors in the founding and conduct of the Detroit Home for the Friendless; the Thompson Home for Old Ladies; and Har- per Hospital (Detroit). Except for them the money for Harper Hospital would have gone to endow the First Presliyterian Church. Dr. Morse Stewart practised till October 3. 1906, when feeling weary he lay down to rest; and on October 9 quietly passed to the un- known. 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. Leartus Connor. rhvs. and Surgs. of the U. S., W. B. Atkinson, Phila.. Pa.. 1878. Biographical Cyclopedia of Mich., N. V. and Detroit, 1900. Stiles, Henry Reed (1832-1909) Henry Reed Stiles was born in New York City, March 10, 1832, being a kinsman of Ezra Stiles, clergyman and educator. He was a member of the class of 1852, Williams Col- lege but did not graduate, going on to the University of the City of New York, where he took an M. D. in 1855. After serving as interne at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital he practised in New York City, in Galena, Illinois and Toledo, Ohio. Settling in Brook- lyn, New York, in 1856 he engaged in pub- lishing educational works (1857-8) under the firm name of Calkins and Stiles. From 1869 to 1863 he practised medicine in Brooklyn