Letter 2182

Stuart left Holland for Douay. He hopes the medical theses he sent by Petiver have made it to London. Stuart served Dr Wilson for a fortnight, working in an army hospital. He hopes to get a more permanent position through his contacts. The army is moving towards Ghent, so the hospital has been disbanded for a few days. Stuart was a physician and natural philosopher. He served as a ship’s surgeon from 1701-1707 and corresponded with Sloane while at sea, sending him natural history specimens. Stuart contributed articles to the Philosophical Transactions from the 1720s, mostly on physiology (Anita Guerrini, Stuart, Alexander (1673?1742), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47081, accessed 3 July 2013]).