FLINT

flint, austin (1812-1886), american physician, was born at petersham, massachusetts, on the 20th of october 1812, and graduated at the medical department of harvard university in 1833. from 1847 to 1852 he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine in buffalo medical college, of which he was one of the founders, and from 1852 to 1856 he filled the same chair in the university of louisville. from 1861 to 1886 he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine and clinical medicine in bellevue hospital medical college, new york. he wrote many text-books on medical subjects, among these being _diseases of the heart_ (1859-1870); _principles and practice of medicine_ (1866); _clinical medicine_ (1879); and _physical exploration of the lungs by means of auscultation and percussion_ (1882). he died in new york on the 13th of march 1886. his son, austin flint, junr., who was born at northampton, massachusetts, on the 28th of march 1836, after studying at harvard and at the university of louisville, graduated at the jefferson medical college, philadelphia, in 1857. he then became professor of physiology at the university of buffalo (1858) and subsequently at other centres, his last connexion being with the cornell university medical college (1898-1906). he was better known as a teacher and writer on physiology than as a practitioner, and his _text-book of human physiology_ (1876) was for many years a standard book in american medical colleges. he also published an extensive _physiology of man_ (5 vols., 1866-1874), _chemical examination of the urine in disease_ (1870), _effects of severe and protracted muscular exercise_ (1871), _source of muscular power_ (1878), and _handbook of physiology_ (1905). in 1896 he became a consulting physician to the new york state hospital for the insane.