History of Petersham, (Worcester County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Austin Flint, physician, was born in Petersham, Mass., Oct. 20, 1812; son of Dr. Joseph Henshaw Flint; grandson of Dr. Austin Flint, Leicester, Mass., who was surgeon in the Revolutionary army; great-grandson of Dr. Edward Flint of Shrewsbury, Mass.; and a direct descendant from Thomas Flint, who came to America front Matlock, Derbyshire, England, and settled in Concord, Mass., in 1635. His father was a well known practitioner and a resident of Northampton and afterward of Springfield, Mass. After a partial collegiate course at Harvard and at Amherst, he was graduated in medicine at Harvard in 1833. He practised in Boston and at Northampton, Mass., and in 1836 established himself at Buffalo, N.Y. He was at Chicago as professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in Rush medical college in 1844. He founded the Buffalo Medical Journal and conducted it for ten years, 1846-56. With Drs. White and Hamilton he founded the Buffalo medical college in 1847, where he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine. 1847-52. He was professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the University of Louisville. 1852-56; professor of pathology and clinical medicine in the Buffalo medical college, 1856-59, professor of clinical medicine in the New Orleans school of medicine, and visiting physician in the Charity hospital there during the winters of 1858-59, 1859-60, and 1860-61. He established himself in New York city in 1859 and in 1861 was appointed physician to Bellevue hospital. He was professor of the principles and practice of medicine and of clinical medicine in the Bellevue Hospital medical college, of which he was one of the founders, in 1861. He was also professor of pathology and practical medicine in the Long Island college hospital, 1861-68. In 1872 he was elected president of the New York academy of medicine and was a member of the leading medical and scientific societies of America and corresponding member of various European medical and scientific organizations. He was a delegate to the International medical congress at Philadelphia in 1876, delivered before the congress an address on "Medicine," and was elected to preside over the congress of 1877. He was a member of the American philosophical society and was president of the American medical association, 1883. He was married in 1835 to Annie, daughter of N. W. Skillings of Boston, Mass. He received from Yale the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1881. His contributions to medical literature include articles in journals, magazines and transactions, and a number of standard medical books, including: Treatise upon the Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866, 6th ed., 1886); Phthisis, etc. (1875); and A Manual of Auscultation and Percussion (1876). He died in New York city, March 13, 1886.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Petersham, (Worcester County) Massachusetts

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