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NAME HEWETSON 523 HEVVSON rector of Bragg's army; in 1875 he was elected professor of surgery in the Alabama Medical College. He was twice married, in 1856 to Anna M., daughter of A. E. Watson, purser United States Navy; she died in 1860 and in 1865 he married Rachael, daughter of J. C. Lyons, of Columbus, South Carolina. Dr. J. F. Heustis died in 1891. Personal Commun. from Dr. Oscar Powling. Alabama Med. and Surg. Age, 1893, vol. v, 141- 148. Phys. and Surg, of the United States, W. B. Atkinson, Philadelphia, 1878. Hewetson, John (1867-1910). John Hewetson, the elder son of Jame:> Hewetson, of Scotch Presbyterian descent, was born at Port Elgin, Ontario, June 18, 1867, and died September 10, 1910, of pulmonary tuberculosis, in St. Joseph 's Hospital, Vic- toria, British Columbia. He was edu- cated at Upper Canada College and thence entered McGill University, where he grad- uated in Medicine in 1890. The same year he became assistant resident physi- cian in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he remained more than three years, during which time, in addition to performing his routine duties, he did valuable statistical work on the cases of typhoid fever, and in conjunc- tion with Dr. William S. Thnyer, made special investigations on the malarial fevers. In 1894 he went to Europe to take up post- graduate work and attended the International Medical Congress in Rome, as a delegate from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In the same year he began work in Leipzig in the Anatomi- cal Institute, where at the suggestion of Pro- fessor His and Professor Flechsig, under Hans Held, he prepared several series of exquisite preparation of the medulla, pons and mid- brain of new-born babes, hoping from their study to throw fresh light upon the develop- ment of the conduction paths in this portion of the central nervous system. These speci- mens are now in Dr. Mall's laboratory in Baltimore and have served as a basis for numerous studies in that institute. His plans were suddenly cut short in the summer of 1895 by his discovery of tubercle bacilli in his own sputum. After fighting the disease for some months in Switzerland, he made a voyage to Australia. In 1897, some- what improved, he returned to Riverside, Cali- fornia, where he lived and took care of his invalid father and managed his business for him. His summers were usually passed in British Columbia. He married Miss Susan Bacon of Boston and his death was undoubted- ly hastened by that of his devoted wife in the preceding year. She left no children. A bas-relief of Dr. Hewetson was placed by his friends in the officers' dining room in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Important as was the medical work accom- plished by John Hewetson during his too brief career, it was overshadowed by the char- acter and personality of the man, which were evidenced by his peculiar power of inspiring love and respect in his colleagues as well as in his patients and friends. Frank R. Smith. (For further data see In Memoriam — Dr. John Hewetson, 1867-1910, in The Johns Hopkin« Hosp. Bull., 1910 vol. xxi, 557-8). Hewson, Addinell (1828-1889). A great many medical men get their names associated with methods and cures they have advocated, and Addinell Hewson, in addition to his predilection for therapeutic electricity, "took up the earth treatment for wounds, contusions, inflammations, tumors and surgi- cal dressings" so that his name became con- nected with his "earth treatment" about 1853, some twenty-five years after his birth on No- vember 22, 1828, as the eighth son of Prof. Thomas T. Hewson (q. v.) of Philadelphia. The grammar school of the University of Pennsylvania received him as a boy and from the university he graduated in Arts in 1847, taking his M. D. from Jefferson Medical Col- lege in 1850, receiving an A. M. from the University of Pennsylvania the same year. As surgeon on a sailing vessel he went to Ireland and became a student under Sir Wil- liam Wilde at St. Mark's Hospital in Dub- lin and also attended the lectures at the Ro- tunda Hospital. He seems to have been liked there, for Sir William asked him to edit a work of his on "Aural Surgery," and in Lon- don, also. Sir WilHam Lawrence offered a partnership if he would remain in England. He gave him, too, an old engraving, very pre- cious to Hewson, of William Hewson gathered with other students around John Hunter. But 1851 saw Addinell settled in Philadelphia as a practitioner, first serving as one of the resi- dent physicians at Pennsylvania Hospital. Three years later he married Rachel Macomb Wetherill, daughter of Dr. William Wetherill of Philadelphia, and had three sons and three daughters. In 1872 he again went to Europe to recu- perate, and was summoned to Mentone to treat Dr. H. R. Storer of Newport, Rhode Island, suffering from tibial abscess. The "earth" treatment, to which Hewson had added sul-