- Austin Flint, 2nd
Austin Flint (1836-1915) was an American physician, born at Northampton, Mass., son of
Austin Flint . He attended medical lectures at theUniversity of Louisville from 1854 to 1856 and in 1856 and 1857 at Jefferson Medical College,Philadelphia . From 1857 to 1859 he was editor of the "Buffalo Medical Journal ", surgeon ofBuffalo City Hospital , andprofessor ofphysiology and microscopical anatomy in the University of Buffalo. In 1859 he removed to New York with his father and was appointed professor of physiology inNew York Medical College . He was professor of physiology in theNew Orleans Medical College in 1860 and studied inEurope in 1860 and 1861. He was professor of physiology and microscopic anatomy in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, from 1861 till that institution was consolidated with the medical department ofNew York University in 1898, when he was appointed professor of physiology in Cornell University Medical College. He was, in 1874, Surgeon-General of New York State. He carried out extensive experimental investigations in human physiology and made several important discoveries. He assisted in establishing the glycogenic function of the liver; showed that one of the functions of the liver is to separate from the blood the cholesterin, which is a product of the nervous system. and which, becoming a constituent of thebile , is afterward converted into what he named "stercorin," the odorous principle of the fces. His principal works are:
* "The Physiology of Man" (fourth edition, 1888)
* "Chemical Examinations of Urine in Diseases" (six editions, 1870-84)
* "Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exercises" (1871)
* "Source of Muscular Power" (1878)
* "Text-Book of Human Physiology" (1875)
* "Experiments Regarding a New Function of the Liver, Separating the Cholesterin of the Blood and Eliminating it as Stercorin" (1862)
* "The Physiology of the Nervous System" (1872)
* "Mechanism of Reflex Nervous Action in Normal Respiration" (1874)
* "The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus" (1884)
* "Chemical Examination of the Urine in Disease" (1893)
* "Stercorin and Cholesterœmia" (1897)
* "Handbook of Physiology" (1905)Terms
* Flint's arcade — an arteriovenous arch at the base of the
renal pyramids .::Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)External links
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