Biography of Austin Flint


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Flint, Austin. Physiologist. Born in Northampton, MA, 1836. Removed to Buffalo, NY, in infancy. Was educated in private schools and at Harvard. He studied medicine at Louisville, 1854-56, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, 1857. After practicing in Buffalo, 1857-59, he removed to New York. He was one of the founders of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in which he was professor of physiology 1861-98. From 1898 to 1915 he was professor of physiology at Cornell University Medical College. He conducted many valuable investigations, and wrote numerous works on physiology and other medical subjects. Died 1915.