Austin Flint
(1812-86) was an American physician, born at Petersham,
Mass. 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 (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.
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