Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger (1837-1900)

Notes of lectures on the Practice of Physic, taken down by Albert Wilson [1854-1928]. The notes are written round pasted-in cuttings from private proofs of lectures, 'for the use of Dr. Grainger Stewart's Class of Practice of Physic'. Produced in Edinburgh.

1876-1877

2 volumes 2 vols. 8vo. 171/2 × 11 cm. Original half calf binding, damaged.

Presented 1929.

The author was M.D. Edinburgh in 1858, and appointed professor of the practice of physic at the University in 1876; he was knighted in 1894 [see the Dictionary of National Biography]. Dr. Albert Wilson [1854-1928] was Medical Superintendent of the Essex County Asylum at Walthamstow, and in 1908 published 'Education, Personality and Crime' and 'Unfinished Man' in 1910.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).