Austin Flint I
Austin Flint I
Born20 October 1812
Petersham, Massachusetts
Died13 March 1886 (1886-03-14) (aged 73)
Manhattan, New York City
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University
OccupationPhysician
Known forHeart disease
ChildrenAustin Flint II
Parent(s)Joseph Henshaw Flint (1786-1846)
Hannah Willard Reed (1787-1821)

Austin Flint I (October 20, 1812 – March 13, 1886) was an American physician. He was a founder of Buffalo Medical College, precursor to The State University of New York at Buffalo. He served as president of the American Medical Association.

Biography

Flint was born at Petersham, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1812, to Joseph Henshaw Flint (1786-1846) and Hannah Willard Reed. He was educated at Amherst and Harvard and graduated at the latter in 1833.

After practicing at Boston, Massachusetts, and Northampton, Massachusetts, he moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1836. He was appointed professor of the institutes and practices of medicine in Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois; resigned after one year, in 1846, and established the Buffalo Medical Journal. With Doctors White and Frank Hastings Hamilton he founded the Buffalo Medical College in 1847, where he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine for six years. He was afterward professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the University of Louisville, Ky., from 1852 to 1856. He was then called to the chair of pathology and clinical medicine at Buffalo. From 1858 to 1861 he was professor of clinical medicine in the School of Medicine at New Orleans. In 1859 he moved to New York and in 1861 was appointed visiting physician to Bellevue Hospital; from 1861 to his death, in 1886, he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine in Bellevue Hospital Medical College (consolidated with the medical department of New York University in 1898), and from 1861 to 1868 he was professor of pathology and practical medicine in Long Island College Hospital.

He was president of the New York Academy of Medicine from 1872 to 1885 and president of the American Medical Association in 1884. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1880.[1]

He died on March 13, 1886, in Manhattan, New York City. His funeral was held at Christ Church United Methodist at the corner of Fifth-avenue and Thirty-fifth-street in Manhattan. His body was on display at his home 418 Fifth-avenue.[2]

Publications

His published works include:

See also

Publications

  • Carpenter, Life of Austin Flint (New York, 1886)

References

  1. ↑ "APS Member History". Archived from the original on 2021-05-14.
  2. ↑ "Funeral Of Dr. Austin Flint.; Christ Church Filled With Prominent Physicians And Other Friends". The New York Times. March 17, 1886.
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