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Thomas Grainger Stewart

1837–1900

Scottish physician. House physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and lecturer on pathology at Surgeons’ Hall, 1862–9. Resigned these posts to become junior ordinary physician in the infirmary and lecturer in clinical medicine, and, later, in the practice of physic. Appointed professor of the practice of physic, Edinburgh University, 1876. Knighted, 1894.

Sources

DNB

J. Gray 1952.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

Gray, James. 1952. History of the Royal Medical Society, 1737–1937. Edited by Douglas Guthrie and with a foreword by Robert Hutchison. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Vols. 10,11]

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