Thomas Grainger Stewart

Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, FRSE FRCPE (23 September 1837 in Edinburgh – 3 February 1900 in Edinburgh) was an eminent Scottish physician who served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1889–1891), president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, president of the medicine section of the British Medical Association, and Physician-in-Ordinary to the Queen for Scotland. He was perhaps best known for describing the condition known as multiple neuritis as well as directing scientific attention in Great Britain to the deep reflexes.

He was born in Edinburgh the son of Alexander Stewart, a decorator, and Agnes Grainger. His early education was at the High School in Edinburgh

He then was accepted at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, graduating MD in 1858, and studied in Berlin, Prague and Vienna after graduation. On his return to Edinburgh he became resident physician in the Royal Infirmary. In 1862 he was appointed pathologist to the Royal Infirmary and lecturer on pathology at Surgeon's Hall. During the succeeding seven years he published numerous papers on pathological and clinical subjects, and in 1869 unsuccessfully contested the chair of general pathology at the University of Edinburgh.

In 1866 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.

He resigned his post as pathologist, and was in early 1876 elected ordinary physician to the Royal Infirmary and lecturer on clinical medicine. On the death of Dr. Thomas Laycock later the same year, Grainger Stewart succeeded him as Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, serving as such until his own death in 1900. He wrote several prominent medical works, notably on kidney, lung and nervous diseases, and the popular textbook On the position and prospects of therapeutics: a lecture introductory to a course on materia medica and dietetic (1862).

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