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assiduity and distinction for twenty-one years, during which he 
published a valuable work on the Diseases of Women, and many 
important memoirs, which placed him in the front rank of the 
obstetricians of his time, and led to his being elected as Honorary 
Fellow of the Obstetrical and Gynjecological Societies of Edinburgh, 
Berlin, Boston, Helsingfors, &c. 
Whilst his most numerous and important contributions were made 
to Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Professor Grailly Hewitt wrote also 
some papers of permanent value and interest on Whooping-cough 
and other diseases of childhood, published a suggestive treatise on 
Nutrition as the Basis of Treatment in Disease, and more recently 
discussed, in two communications to The British Medical Journal^ 
the subject of Visual Disturbance as a Cause of Sea-Sickness. 
He became a Fellow of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh in 1889. 
He had retired for some time from active service, and died in 
London on 27th August 1893, “in such peace,” says the Lancet's 
obituarist, “ that the beautiful lines of his well-known John William 
Inchbald seemed to be written as if for him — 
‘ Is it deep sleep, or is it rather death ? 
But anyhow it is, and sweet is rest ; 
No more the doubtful blessing of the breath. 
Our God hath said that silence is the best.’ ” 
