University; in 1868, lecturer on materia medica and therapeutics; in 1869, professor of materia medica and therapeutics and in 1872, elected professor of physiology at Ann Arbor and also in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. During these years he continued his ever-increasing medical practice, but under pressure of superhuman work his health gave way with phthisis pulmonalis, and he went to Colorado, returning, however, in 1875 and essaying to resume the broken thread but soon went to pieces and resigned himself to his fate. He joined the Michigan State Medical Society in 1869 and remained a member till his death. He was an original worker and sought to verify book statements by experiment. His graduation thesis of "Catalysis" was based on his own experiments and brought out points not previously made. Later he conducted a series of experiments to demonstrate the influence of alcohol in modifying body temperature.
Dr. Cheever was about five feet ten inches tall, spare build with long limbs. His face was long and thin, covered by a scanty close-trimmed beard of iron-gray color. Entirely wrapped up in his work, he gave to the uttermost to others. He was one of the best products of Michigan, and all who knew him never ceased to regret his early death. In 1863 he married Sarah E. Bissell of Tecumseh, who with two children survived him when he died at Ann Arbor, March 31, 1877, from phthisis pulmonalis.
His papers included: "An Anomalous Case of Ovarian Cyst" (Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, vol. ii); "Abscess of the Brain" (Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, vol. iii); "Puerperal Convulsion, (Michigan University Medical Journal, vol. i); "Effects of Alcohol on the Animal Temperature" (Michigan University Medical Journal, vol. i); "Colorado as a Sanitarium" (The Peninsular Medical Journal, vol. ii).
Chew, Samuel (1806–1863)
Samuel Chew, born in Calvert County, Maryland, on April 29, 1806, was educated at Charlotte Hall, and graduated A. B. and M. A. from Princeton College. Afterwards he studied medicine under Dr. William Donaldson and took his M. D. from the University of Maryland in 1829, practising in Calvert County for about five years and then moving to the capital. In conjunction with Dr. Joshua Cohen (q. v.), he established an Eye and Ear Institute in 1840, himself taking the Ophthalmological work. In 1841 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the University of Maryland and in 1852 he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine, a post he held until his death from pneumonia on Christmas day, 1863.
In addition to his other positions, he was dean of the Medical School, 1842–1844, and vice-president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty from 1859 to 1863.
Dr. Chew was a man of classical tastes and scholarly attainments. He was a frequent contributor to periodical literature, and delivered numerous lectures and addresses, many of which were published. His latest and most extensive work was a 12mo volume, published in Philadelphia in 1864, and intended chiefly for medical students; it was entitled "Lectures on Medical Education." This work was left unfinished at his death but was completed and published by his son, Dr. Samuel C. Chew (q.v.). The last words which he wrote in it were "Sic itur ad astra." He was also a co-editor of the Maryland Medical and Surgical Journal, the official organ of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty in 1843.
Chew, Samuel Claggett (1837–1915)
For forty-five years, from 1864 to 1909, Samuel Claggett Chew was a member of the faculty and of the board of regents of the University of Maryland, for twenty-one years occupying the chair of materia medica and therapeutics, and for twenty-four years that of the practice of medicine.
He was bom in Baltimore, July 26, 1837, the son of Samuel Chew (q. v.), who likewise held the same chairs, and was dean of the faculty. His great grandfather was Thomas John Claggett, the first Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, and the first bishop of any church to be consecrated in America. The son graduated at Princeton in 1856, and received an A. M. in 1859; took his M. D. from the University of Maryland in 1858 and settled in practice in Baltimore, there to live, except for a visit to Europe in 1864, until his death, March 22, 1915, at the age of seventy-seven.
His teaching was characterized by varied and profound scholarship. His powers of analysis, his keen sensing of the students' needs and limitations, his fine presence and rich voice made his didactic lectures models of the teacher's art. He was an exemplar of the gentleman and scholar in medicine, and left his impress on some four thousand stu
