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FLINT, AUSTIN (1812-1886)

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FLINT, See also:AUSTIN (1812-1886) , See also:American physician, was See also:born at Petersham, See also:Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:October 1812, and graduated at the medical See also:department of Harvard, University in 1833. From 1847 to 1852 he was See also:professor of the theory and practice of See also:medicine in See also:Buffalo Medical See also:College, of which he was one of the founders, and from 1852 to 1856 he filled the same See also:chair in the university of See also:Louisville. From 1861 to 1886 he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine and clinical medicine in Bellevue See also:Hospital Medical College, New See also:York. He wrote many See also:text-books on medical subjects, among these being Diseases of the See also:Heart (1859-1870); Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866); Clinical Medicine (1879); and See also:Physical Exploration of the Lungs by means of See also:Auscultation and Percussion (1882). He died in New York on the 13th of See also:March 1886. His son, AUSTIN FLINT, junr., who was born at See also:Northampton, Massachusetts, on the 28th of March 1836, after studying at Harvard and at the university of Louisville, graduated at the See also:Jefferson Medical College, See also:Philadelphia, in 1857. He then became professor of See also:physiology at the university of Buffalo (1858) and subsequently at other centres, his last connexion being with the Cornell University Medical College (1898-1906). He was better known as a teacher and writer on physiology than as a practitioner, and his Text-See also:book of Human Physiology (1876) was for many years a See also:standard book in American medical colleges. He also published an extensive Physiology of See also:Man (5 vols., 1866-1874), Chemical Examination of the Urine in Disease (1870), Effects of Severe and Protracted See also:Muscular Exercise (1871), Source of Muscular See also:Power (1878), and Handbook of Physiology (1905). In 1896 he became a consulting physician to the New York See also:State Hospital for the Insane.

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