Memoir of Austin Flint, M.D., Ll.D. / by A. Jacobi.

  • Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919.
Date:
1886
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    the chair of clinical medicine in the University of Louis- ville. Thence he returned to Buffalo in 1856, spent the winters of from 1858 to 1861 in New Orleans, teaching medicine and attending Charity Hospital, and settled in New York in 1859. His position as the teacher of clini- cal medicine in the Long Island Afedical College he re- signed in 1868 ; the same chair in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College he retained to his end. Its last Com- mencement took plac^ while he lay dead in his house, and a day before he was carried to his last silent home. As a teacher he was eminently successful. Thousands of the j^resent practitioners of the United States were his pupils ; there is no county but has those who listened to his lectures; and there is none but who gratefully re- members the breadth of his knowledge, and the sys- tematic clearness and elegant simplicity of his diction. Whoever has not listened to him in the lecture room has made his acquaintance by his writings. For forty years he has contributed largely and worthily to the medical literature of the country. Many of his first papers appeared in the Buffalo Medical Journal, which owed the high regard in which it was held mainly to his contributions. From 1848 to 1850 he published articles on diabetes, the pathology of typhoid fever, on the epi- demic of cholera in Buffalo, on serous effusions into the arachnoid cavity, on pleuro-pneumonitis complicated with pericarditis, and on fifty-two cases of typhoid fever. These essays were followed, in 1852, by clinical reports on continued fever and on variations of pitch in percus- sion and respiratory sounds, and their application to phys- ical diagnosis ; in 1853, by clinical reports on dysentery, and on chronic pleurisy; by (1856) his physical explora- tion of the chest and the diagnosis of diseases affecting the respiratory organs, and (1859) his practical treatise on the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of diseases of the heart. In 1865 he wrote his compendium of jiercussion and auscultation, and of the physical diagnosis of diseases