Selected monographs : comprising Albuminuria in health and disease ... Some considerations on the nature and pathology of typhus and typhoid fever ... Moveable kidney in women.

Date:: 1884

Credit: Selected monographs : comprising Albuminuria in health and disease ... Some considerations on the nature and pathology of typhus and typhoid fever ... Moveable kidney in women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ME]\[01Il. ■energy, of acute observation, of clear ideas with great facility in tbeir expressiou. His bigli integrity, his warm heart, and his genial disposition, caused him to bo universally beloved and respected. His religious convictions were strong, and he was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church in which he held the office of an Elder, and in connexion with which he devoted much time to religious and charitable works. His life may be said to have been thoroughly con- sistent with the principles ho professed. Though in consequence, perhaps, of a certain innate deficiency in habits of business-like punctuality, he never attained to that leading position in practice which his high qualities merited, he has left behind him an unblemished reputation, and his name will always be associated with one •of the great discoveries of medicine. Dr. Stewart, who was never married, died at his house in 'Grosvenor Street July 17th, 1883, having nearly completed his seventieth year. Much controversy has taken place as to whom the discovery of the distinction between typhus and typhoid fever is to be attributed, and as to the share Dr. Stewart had in determining this question; but, as so often happens in disputes as to priority, it will be found on impartial inves- tigation that the discovery was arrived at gradually, successive ■observers adding fresh links to the chain of argument till at last the conclusion was securely established. Although it cannot be claimed for Dr. Stewart that he was the first to make out the distinctions between typhus and typhoid, nevertheless at a time when the great majority of observers regarded them either as the same disease or at most only Avell-marked varieties, his own observations, made at Glasgow from 1836—38, and at Paris in 1839, con- vinced him of their essential distinction. And in the present memoir he demonstrated this more fully and conclusively than had been done before, at least in this country ; for in$