D" ALEXANDER STEWART

LATK PHYSICIAN TO Tllb: MIDULKSEX HOSPITAI,

My dear frieiid, thirty six years ago, vve were both in Paris studying lyphoïd feveriii Cliomers vvards. You puhlished theii an adniiiable work vvhicli vvill attach your name to the history of Ihis fever. Yuu were ihe lirst, vvith ail Ihe strictness of the modem scientitic method, to prove, as was asserted by very few and disputed by a great niany, that lypbus and lyphoïd lever were Iwo diseases essenlially différent ; and, tracing every symptom oi" both thèse alTections, you poinled ont with nndeniable évidence how dissiinilar ihey were in their manifestations during life and in the organic changes after dealh.

Allow me to dedicate to you and, through you, to Ihe english [)hysicians, who welcomed me with a such gracious hospitalily, this pamphlet, the principal and best part of vvhich is boi'rovvcd from english médical works.