Austin Flint I

{{Infobox person

| name = Austin Flint I

| image =Austin Flint, Sr.jpg

| caption = Austin Flint I

| birth_date = 20 October 1812

| birth_place = Petersham, Massachusetts

| death_date = {{death-date and age|13 March 1886|20 October 1812}}

| death_place = Manhattan, New York City

| citizenship =

| nationality = American

| occupation = Physician

| education = Harvard University

| known_for = Austin Flint murmur
Heart disease

| awards =

| parents = Joseph Henshaw Flint (1786-1846)
Hannah Willard Reed (1787-1821)

| children = Austin Flint II

}}

Austin Flint I (October 20, 1812 – March 13, 1886) was an American physician.{{cite book |last1=Yale |first1=Steven H. |last2=Tekiner |first2=Halil |last3=Mazza |first3=Joseph J. |last4=Yale |first4=Eileen S. |last5=Yale |first5=Ryan C. |title=Cardiovascular Eponymic Signs: Diagnostic Skills Applied During the Physical Examination |date=2021 |publisher=Springer |location=Switzerland |isbn=978-3-030-67596-7 |page=107 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJQoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA107 |language=en |chapter=5. Aortic regurgitation murmurs; historical background}} 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.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1880];smode=advanced;startDoc=1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514152905/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1880%5D;smode=advanced;startDoc=1 |archive-date=2021-05-14 }}

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.{{cite news |title=Funeral Of Dr. Austin Flint.; Christ Church Filled With Prominent Physicians And Other Friends |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1886/03/17/archives/funeral-of-dr-austin-flint-christ-church-filled-with-prominent.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 17, 1886 }}

Publications

His published works include:

[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9516434 The reciprocal duties and obligations of the medical profession and the public.] (1844)
[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/64431080R Clinical reports on continued fever based on analyses of one hundred and sixty-four cases.] (1852)
[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/65330570R Clinical report on chronic pleurisy: based on an analysis of forty-seven cases.] (1853)
[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/63631500R On variations of pitch in percussion and respiratory sounds, and their application to physical diagnosis.] (1852)
[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/64431090R Clinical report on dysentery: based on an analysis of forty-nine cases with remarks on the causation, pathology and management of the disease.] (1853)
[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/64431080R Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases.] (1855)
[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/65330590R Physical Exploration in the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs.] (1856; revised second edition, 1868)
[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001583369 Diseases of the Heart] (1859; second edition, 1870)
[http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101178846 Experimental researches into a new excretory function of the liver.] (1862)
Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866; revised fifth edition, 1884)
[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001575631 Medical Essays on Conservative Medicine and Kindred Topics] (1874)
[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001583193 Clinical Medicine] (1879)
On Phthisis (1883)
Manual of Auscultation and Percussion (revised third edition, 1883)
[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001575148 Medicine of the future] (1886)

Publications

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

References

{{cite journal| last = Winkelstein

| first = Warren

|date=March 2007

| title = Austin Flint, clinician turned epidemiologist

| journal = Epidemiology

| volume = 18

| issue = 2

| pages = 279

| pmid = 17301709

| doi = 10.1097/01.ede.0000255222.91693.62

| doi-access = free

}}

{{cite journal| last = Leslie

| first = Bruce R

| year = 2002

| title = Austin Flint in New Orleans and the origins of evidence-based medicine

| journal = The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society

| volume = 154

| issue = 3

| pages = 144–8

| pmid = 12139360

}}

{{cite journal| last = Cohen

| first = S G

| year = 1997

| title = Asthma among the famous. Austin Flint (1812–1886) American physician

| journal = Allergy and Asthma Proceedings

| volume = 18

| issue = 3

| pages = 187–90

| pmid = 9194947

}}

{{cite journal| last = Mehta

| first = N J

|author2=Mehta R N |author3=Khan I A

| year = 2000

| title = Austin Flint: Clinician, Teacher, and Visionary

| journal = Texas Heart Institute Journal

| volume = 27

| issue = 4

| pages = 386–9

| pmid = 11198312

| pmc = 101108

}}

{{cite journal| last = Sternbach

| first = G

|author2= Varon J

| year = 1993

| title = Austin Flint: on cardiac murmurs

| journal = The Journal of Emergency Medicine

| volume = 11

| issue = 3

| pages = 313–5

| pmid = 8340588

| doi = 10.1016/0736-4679(93)90052-9

}}

{{cite journal| last = Fye

| first = W B

|date=August 1989

| title = Austin Flint, 1812–1886

| journal = Clinical Cardiology

| volume = 12

| issue = 8

| pages = 476–7

| pmid = 2670385

| doi = 10.1002/clc.4960120815

| s2cid = 6357386

| doi-access = free

}}

{{cite journal| last = Evans

| first = A S

| year = 1985

| title = Two errors in enteric epidemiology: the stories of Austin Flint and Max von Pettenkofer

| journal = Rev. Infect. Dis.

| volume = 7

| issue = 3

| pages = 434–40

| pmid = 3895358

| doi = 10.1093/clinids/7.3.434

}}

{{cite journal| last = Chen

| first = T S

|author2=Chen P S

|date=October 1987

| title = The Austin Flints and their contribution to medicine and hepatology

| journal = Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics

| volume = 165

| issue = 4

| pages = 367–72

| pmid = 3310286

}}

{{cite journal| last = Kambara

| first = H

|date=January 1985

| title = "Ryumachi shinron", the first translated and published monograph on rheumatic diseases in Japan, and short biographical sketches of the author of the original book, Austin Flint (1812–1886), and of the translator, Toshio Yasugi (1847–1883) (Jpn)

| journal = Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi

| volume = 31

| issue = 1

| pages = 39–50

| pmid = 11622129

}}