Stewart Paton (1865-1942) was a Johns Hopkins-affiliated psychiatrist and director of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital for Mental Patients. He became a leader in the mental hygiene and eugenic movements of the early twentieth century, and helped secure funding for the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Institute of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this note, Osler thanked Paton for the copy of his "Textbook of Psychiatry for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine," which soon became a standard text in the field. Although Paton helped with the establishment of the Phipps Institute, he left Baltimore in 1904 to do research, then was at Princeton for 17 years and Yale for 2 years before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1928.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)