Augustus Stinchfield
{{short description|American physician}}
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1842|12|21}}
|birth_place = Phillips, Maine, U.S.
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1917|03|15|1842|12|21}}
|death_place = Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
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|alma_mater = Bowdoin College
University of Michigan
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Augustus W. Stinchfield (December 21, 1842 – March 15, 1917) was an American physician and one of the co-founders—along with Drs. Charles Horace Mayo, William James Mayo, Christopher Graham, E. Starr Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet and Donald Balfour—of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Life and career
Stinchfield was born in Phillips, Maine and received his early education in the nearby town of Strong. He moved from Maine to Wisconsin as a young man and, in 1864, enlisted as a private in Company F of the Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Army. After the Civil War, he attended Bowdoin College and the University of Michigan. He received his M.D. degree from Bowdoin College in 1868. After practicing medicine in Verona, Missouri, as well as Dundas and Eyota, Minnesota, Stinchfield was asked by William Worrall Mayo to join the Mayos' practice in 1892. William Worrall Mayo was retiring and wanted a mid-career physician to balance the growing private practice.
While the Mayo brothers excelled in surgery, Stinchfield was well qualified to handle the non-surgical duties of the practice. When Will Mayo approached the remaining partners in 1915 about changing the private practice to a not-for-profit practice, Stinchfield was the first to sign the agreement. When the remaining partners signed the transfer papers, this gift insured the long-term survival, development and growth of the Mayo Clinic.
Bibliography
- "Psychological influences in health and disease", Tr. Minnesota State Medical Society, 1875, pp. 30–40
- "Sciatic neuritis", Northwest. Lancet, 14:184, 1894
- "Gastritis", Northwest. Lancet, 15:321–324, 1895
- "The treatment of pleurisy", Northwest. Lancet, 16:395, 1896
- "Nervous syndroms of Bright's disease", Northwest. Lancet, 16:449, 1896
- "Bronchitis and its complications", Northwest. Lancet, 17:452–455, 1897
- "Cardiac dilation", St. Paul Med. Jour. 2:610–615, 1900
References
- Clapesattle, Helen. The Doctors Mayo, University of Minnesota Press (1975). {{ISBN|0-8166-0465-7}}
- Mayo Clinic, Physicians of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation, University of Minnesota Press, 1936
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140221113933/http://www.mayoclinic.org/tradition-heritage/mms.html Mayo Medical School] at www.mayoclinic.org
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Category:19th-century American physicians
Category:Bowdoin College alumni
Category:People from Phillips, Maine
Category:People from Rochester, Minnesota
Category:People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:People from Lawrence County, Missouri
Category:People from Rice County, Minnesota
Category:People from Eyota, Minnesota