Neil Stewart watercolour

• Reference:GB 254 MS 16/9/38
• Former Reference:GB 254 K38
• Dates of Creation:February 1850
• Name of Creator:
  Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner
• Physical Description:
  1 item

• Scope and Content

  Neil Stewart watercolour. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Kidney in a chronic case of albuminuria in which the fatty degeneration of the epithelium has taken place to a great degree, giving rise to the opaque yellowish deposits scattered through the cortical substance which is much atrophied as is shown in the upper left drawing by the thin layers of cortex and the spreading of the base of the pyramids nearly to the surface. The sections under low power (40 diam) show that, while the Malpighian tufts have mostly vanished, the veins of the surface are still well preserved."

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Neil Stewart (1814-1875) was primarily a Botanist and was a member of many learned societies, including the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and excelled as a botanical draughtsman in the illustration of natural history subjects. He executed a large number of botanical drawings for the Botanical classes in the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and for a number of years was the elected artist to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, of which he became an Associate in 1850.
  William Tennant Gairdner (1824-1907) studied medicine at Edinburgh in the 1840's, gaining good reports and coming to work in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Gairdner applied for the post of pathologist to the ERI in 1848. This meant he became responsible for the "Edinburgh Pathology Register", a series of large leather bound volumes that recorded the findings from every post-mortem examination. Throughout his career he progressed rapidly, from Clerk to Infirmary Pathologist and finally, to Physician. His last appointment was to the Chair of Medicine at Glasgow University, and it was while in this position that he received his Knighthood.

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  Neil Stewart (1814-1875) was primarily a Botanist and was a member of many learned societies, including the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and excelled as a botanical draughtsman in the illustration of natural history subjects. He executed a large number of botanical drawings for the Botanical classes in the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and for a number of years was the elected artist to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, of which he became an Associate in 1850.
  William Tennant Gairdner (1824-1907) studied medicine at Edinburgh in the 1840's, gaining good reports and coming to work in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Gairdner applied for the post of pathologist to the ERI in 1848. This meant he became responsible for the "Edinburgh Pathology Register", a series of large leather bound volumes that recorded the findings from every post-mortem examination. Throughout his career he progressed rapidly, from Clerk to Infirmary Pathologist and finally, to Physician. His last appointment was to the Chair of Medicine at Glasgow University, and it was while in this position that he received his Knighthood.

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