STEWART, Ferdinand Campbell, physician, born in Williamsburg, Virginia, 10 August, 1815. He was educated at William and Mary, and graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1837. Subsequently he spent five years in professional study in Edinburgh and Paris. On his return he began the practice of medicine in Williamsburg, but was encouraged by his success to remove to New York city, where he was active until 1849. He obtained charge of medical and surgical wards in Bellevue hospital, and at the same time received in his office students that had the benefits of this clinical instruction. In 1847-'8 he volunteered his services during the prevalence of typhus fever, and prescribed daily for two hundred dangerously ill patients. When Bellevue hospital was reorganized Dr. Stewart was appointed a member of the committee to recommend a new and improved plan, and after its adoption was made one of the visiting medical officers. In 1849 he was appointed the first physician of the marine hospital on Staten island in connection with the quarantine, and continued in that office until 1851, meanwhile reorganizing that institution. Dr. Stewart continued to reside on Staten island until 1855, when the death of his father led to his removal to England in order to obtain estates to which he had fallen heir. He was a member of medical societies both in the United States and Europe, and in 1847 aided in founding the New York academy of medicine, whose success was principally owing to his exertions. He was its secretary until his removal from New York city, held the office of vice-president three times, and on three different occasions was anniversary orator. In 1848-'9 he was chairman of the committee on typhus fever, when the disease had almost caused a panic in the city. He was active in promoting the National medical convention that held its first meeting in New York in 1846, and was secretary of the meeting in Philadelphia in 1847, and he was also a member of the committee that drafted the constitution of the American medical association in 1847. Dr. Stewart was for many years the family physician of President Tyler, and refused several diplomatic appointments that were offered him by the president. He invented and introduced several instruments that have found use in genito-urinary diseases. In addition to his contributions to medical journals. he was in 1844-'5 editor of the "New York Journal of Medicine," and he published a translation of "Scoutetten on Club-Foot" (Philadelphia, 1839); "Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris" (New York, 1843); and a report on "Medical Education" to the American medical association (1849-'50), era-bracing statistics and regulations of the medical colleges of the United States, and an account of similar institutions in all parts of the world.