Austin Flint (October 20, 1812 – March 13, 1886) was an American physician, born at Petersham, Massachusetts 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.

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  • Austin Flint (October 20, 1812 – March 13, 1886) was an American physician, born at Petersham, Massachusetts 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. His published works include: On Continued Fever (1852) Chronic Pleurisy (1853) On Dysentery (1853) Physical Exploration in the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (1856; revised second edition, 1868) Diseases of the Heart (1859; second edition, 1870) Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866; revised fifth edition, 1884) Medical Essays on Conservative Medicine and Kindred Topics (1874) Clinical Medicine (1879) On phthisis (1883) Manual of Auscultation and Percussion (revised third edition, 1883)
  • Studiò all'Univesità di Harvard, dove fu influenzato da James Jackson (1777-1868), un seguace di René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781-1826). Si laureò nel 1832. Fece pratica a Boston, Buffalo e New York. Fu pioniere delle ricerche sul cuore, diede numerosi contributi importanti alla conoscenza delle patologie cardiorespiratorie. Disse spesso di aver coniato egli stesso il termine respiro bronco vescicolare. A lui è dedicato il rullìo diastolico in corrispondenza dell'apice cardiaco in corso di insufficienza valvolare aortica. Ricordiamo poi la prima legge di Flint, o legge di Flint I, che riguarda l'associazione inversa tra il fremito vocale tattile e percussione toracica nella consolidazione polmonare. Infine occorre citare la Sindrome di Frerichs-Heyd-Flint, sviluppata da una disfunzione renale in pazienti con severo insulto epatico, in assenza di un'altra causa identificabile di patologia renale. Acquistò grande reputazione e fu uno dei fondatori del Buffalo Medical College, dove insegnò. Nel 1861 diventa professore al Bellevue Hospital di New York, più tardi al Long Island Hospital di Brooklyn. Suo figlio Austin junior (1836-1915), fisiologo, pubblicò importanti studi sulle funzioni epatiche.
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  • Austin Flint (October 20, 1812 – March 13, 1886) was an American physician, born at Petersham, Massachusetts 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.
  • Studiò all'Univesità di Harvard, dove fu influenzato da James Jackson (1777-1868), un seguace di René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781-1826). Si laureò nel 1832. Fece pratica a Boston, Buffalo e New York. Fu pioniere delle ricerche sul cuore, diede numerosi contributi importanti alla conoscenza delle patologie cardiorespiratorie. Disse spesso di aver coniato egli stesso il termine respiro bronco vescicolare.
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