George A. Stuart

George Arthur Stuart (December 31, 1859 – July 25, 1911) was an American Methodist missionary, grew up in Iowa, attended Simpson College, and received an MD from Iowa College of Physicians and Surgeons.

In 1882 he married Rachel Anna Golden. In 1889, he was ordained an elder at Nanjing, having been elected to that office as a missionary by the Des Moines Conference. He continued in charge of the Wuhu Hospital until 1896.

In addition to his work at the University, he also served as president of the Medical Missionary Association of China (MMAC), which had been founded in 1886.

Besides these official duties, he was busy with literary and missionary pursuits: translating hymns, revising and retranslating the Book of Discipline and other religious materials, serving on a committee that established Chinese medical terminology, and preaching sermons at the University.

Chinese materia medica In 1900, Stuart began a project to revise Frederick Porter Smith's Chinese materia medica. Before his death, Stuart completed the volume covering vegetable substances, which was published in 1911. The book drew extensively on the Bencao gangmu. It was to be the first of three volumes, with additional books covering animal and mineral substances.

Death Stuart died in 1911.