Alfred Stillé
Deceased Person
1813 – 1900
Who was Alfred Stillé?
Alfred Stillé was an American physician. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at Yale and at the University of Pennsylvania. He settled in practice in his native city, but spent parts of 1841 and 1851 in Paris and Vienna. From 1854 to 1859 he was professor of medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical College and from 1864 to 1884 at the University of Pennsylvania. Stillé was one of the first in America to distinguish between typhus and typhoid fever. His observations in this connection he made during a typhus epidemic in Philadelphia in 1836 and reported in 1838. He acquired a great reputation as a practitioner, teacher, and writer, and was the first secretary, and in 1871-72 the president, of the American Medical Association.
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- Born
- 1813
Philadelphia - Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale University
- Employment
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
- Died
- 1900
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on July 23, 2013
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