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STEIN 1093 STEPHEN Stein, Alexander W. (1841-1897) Alexander VV. Stein, born in Buda, Hun- gary, March 3, 1841, son of the chief surgeon of the Hungarian Army in the Revolution of 1843-1849, came to the United States with his father in 1845. He received an M. D. at the University of the City of New York in 1867 and began practice in New York City, speciaHzing in genito urinary and venereal dis- eases. In 1863 he had been acting assistant surgeon in the United State.^ .rmy, being re- tired because of illness. He was professor of visceral anatomy and physiology in the New York College of Dentistry 1868-1875, and was appointed pro- fessor of comparative histology and physiology in the New York College of Veterinary Sur- gery, in 1868. He was visiting surgeon to the City Hospital. Among his writings are: "Exfoliation of the Mucus and Submucus Coat of the Bladder Preceded by Renal and Vesical Calculus"; "Lecture on Agnosticism Based on Physical Science"; "Retention of Urine Depending on Stricture." There are eight titles in the Sur- geon-General's Catalogue. He was married and had four children. An infection received during an operation caused his death, in New York City, Decem- ber 6. 1897. Phys. and Surgs. of the U. S., W. B. Atkinson, 1878. Private information. Steiner, Lewis Henry (1827-1892) Dr. Steiner, librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, was born in Fred- erick City, Maryland, May 4, 1827. He was descended from German ancestors who settled in western Maryland early in the eighteenth century. He attended Marshall College, at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and took his A. B. there in 1846. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him three times; by his alma mater in 1849, by St. James College in 1854. and by Yale in 1869. His M. D. he had from the University of Pennsylvania in 1849. In 1852 he removed to Baltimore, where he held the chairs of chemistry in the Maryland Medical Institute (a preparatory school) and in the Maryland College of Pharmacy. He also held the same chair later in Columbia College and the National Medical College, at Washington, District of Columbia, and lec- tured at times on natural history, physics and pharmacy. In 1861 he returned to Frederick City. During the Civil War he was chief inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission in the .rmy of the Potomac, .fter 1868 his time was given up mostly to literary and scientific pursuits. Dr. Steiner"s death took place suddenly in his library, of apoplexy, February 18, 1892. He was a member of the Reformed Church, and always took an active interest in its affairs. He left a widow, three daughters and two sons. He was a close student, an eloquent speaker, and a ready writer. At the age of twenty-four he published his first work, en- titled "Physical Science." He later translated "Will's Chemical Analysis." He was assistant editor of the American Medical Monthly. During his later years he was librarian of the Enoch Pratt free library in Baltimore. He was a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. He was also a member of the American Academy of Medicine and its president in 1879. "No brighter example," says Prof. Raddatz, his biographer, "of high and earnest ardor in his country's cause, of manhood, integrity and energy, shines in the galaxy of sterling citizens which the sturdy race from which he sprang has given to our state." The Surgeon-General's catalogue has twenty-seven titles of Steiner's writings. Eugene F. Cordell. Hist, of the Univ. of Maryland, Cordell, 1907, vol. i. Portrait. For a list of writings, see Quinan's Med. Annals of Baltimore," 1884. Bull. Amer. Acad. Med., Easton, Pa., 1892, 216- 218. Stephen, Adam ( 1791) A native of Scotland, Stephen was educated at Edinburgh University where it is said he studied six years, the last two "in different physical classes," and that Donald Munroe, Gregory and Stephen took away the palm in all classes of philosophy, mathematics and physic." Leaving college he passed the ex- amination for the position of naval surgeon, "but discovering that officers and men were a parcel of bears," he went as hospital-ship surgeon for the army in the expedition against Port L'Oriente. After various adventures he finally settled in Virginia. He took part in the French and Indian War, and with another physician of Scottish birth. Dr. James Craik (q. v.), accompanied Wash- ington on that perilous journey which termi- nated at Fort Necessity. The Revolution found him on the side of his adopted coun- try. In her preparation for the struggle with the mother-country, Virginia raised nine regi- ments of infantry, the first six of which were placed on the continental establishment and their officers commissioned by Congress. The third and fourth of these were commanded