Thomas Grainger Stewart

[1] 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.

In 1862 he was appointed pathologist to the Royal Infirmary and lecturer on pathology and on diseases of children at the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine at Surgeon's Hall.

[6] He resigned his post as pathologist, and was in early 1876 elected ordinary physician to the Royal Infirmary and lecturer on clinical medicine.

[4] 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).

In 1882 he was appointed a Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria for Scotland,[9] and in 1894 received a knighthood on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery.