Austin Flint
Physician
1812 – 1886
Who was Austin Flint?
Austin Flint 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.
Flint was born at Petersham, Massachusetts. He was educated at Amherst and Harvard and graduated at the latter in 1833.
After practicing at Boston and Northampton, he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1836. He was appointed professor of the institutes and practices of medicine in Rush Medical College, Chicago; 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 removed 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, and from 1861 to 1868 he was professor of pathology and practical medicine in Long Island College Hospital.
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- Born
- Oct 20, 1812
Petersham - Also known as
- Dr. Austin Flint
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Amherst College
- Lived in
- Buffalo
- Massachusetts
- New York City
- Died
- Mar 13, 1886
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on July 23, 2013
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