Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2006.5

AUSTIN FLINT (1836-1915) The physiology of man : designed to represent the existing state of physiological science as applied to the functions of the human body Appleton and Company 1866-1874 1st 24 cm

The son of the famous American physician by the same name (see No. 1779), Austin Flint the younger was one of a six-generation line of doctors from 1733 to 1955. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1857, was a professor of physiology and microscopic anatomy at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (which his father helped found) in New York City until 1898, before moving on to Cornell University Medical College. In 1874, he was the Surgeon General of New York state. He died in Manhattan in 1915. Flint did studies in the functions of the liver, and is known for his important work in the field of human physiology.

See Related Record(s): 1779