Son of Austin and Anne Flint∼Austin Flint, emeritus professor
of physiology in the Cornell University
Medical College, died at New York on
September 22. He was born at North-
ampton, Mass., on March 28, 1836.
After one year in Harvard College, he
went to the Jefferson Medical College
in Philadelphia and graduated there in
1857. In 1858 he was appointed an
attending surgeon at the Buffalo City
Hospital. He was professor of physiology
successively at the Buffalo Medical
School, the New York Medical College,
the New Orleans School of Medicine,
and the Long Island College Hospital.
He was a founder of the Bellevue Hos-
pital Medical College in 1861 and was
professor of physiology there from the
foundation until 1898, when he joined
the faculty of the new Cornell Univer-
sity Medical College. He retired in
1906.
At the meeting of the Faculty of the
Cornell University Medical College held
at the college on Friday, October 15,
the following memorial was read and
adopted :
"Austin Flint, M.D., LL.D., Professor
Emeritus in the Cornell University Med-
ical College, passed away September 221915, in the eightieth year of his age.
A student of Claude Bernard and of
Robin, he early achieved distinction.
Thus, in 1862, at the age of twenty-five,
he discovered a substance which he
called stercorin, recognizing it as a
derivative of cholestrin. This discovery
was awarded honorable mention by the
Institute of France. It did not receive
full recognition because of an unfavor-
able pronouncement by Hoppe-Seyler.
However, in 1896, stercorin was again
discovered, this time by Bondzynski,
and given the name of koprosterin. To
Flint, however, working with older,
cruder methods, belongs the credit of
having -first isolated the substance in
pure crystalline form.
"Austin Flint was one of the greatest
teachers of the old school of American
Medicine. A forceful orator and skilled
experimentalist, he was the first in this
country to expound the doctrines of the
French school of physiology which in
his early life was at the height of its
renown.
"Dr. Flint took pride in being of the
fifth generation of noted physicians, his
great-grandfather and his father having
borne the name of Austin Flint, a name
which outlives him in a surviving son.
"We, the Faculty of the Cornell Uni-
versity Medical College with which Dr.
Flint was associated during ten years,
hereby record our appreciation of this
life and beg to tender our sympathies to
his family.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News, October 28, 1915 Vol. XVIII., No. 5 p.7
of physiology in the Cornell University
Medical College, died at New York on
September 22. He was born at North-
ampton, Mass., on March 28, 1836.
After one year in Harvard College, he
went to the Jefferson Medical College
in Philadelphia and graduated there in
1857. In 1858 he was appointed an
attending surgeon at the Buffalo City
Hospital. He was professor of physiology
successively at the Buffalo Medical
School, the New York Medical College,
the New Orleans School of Medicine,
and the Long Island College Hospital.
He was a founder of the Bellevue Hos-
pital Medical College in 1861 and was
professor of physiology there from the
foundation until 1898, when he joined
the faculty of the new Cornell Univer-
sity Medical College. He retired in
1906.
At the meeting of the Faculty of the
Cornell University Medical College held
at the college on Friday, October 15,
the following memorial was read and
adopted :
"Austin Flint, M.D., LL.D., Professor
Emeritus in the Cornell University Med-
ical College, passed away September 221915, in the eightieth year of his age.
A student of Claude Bernard and of
Robin, he early achieved distinction.
Thus, in 1862, at the age of twenty-five,
he discovered a substance which he
called stercorin, recognizing it as a
derivative of cholestrin. This discovery
was awarded honorable mention by the
Institute of France. It did not receive
full recognition because of an unfavor-
able pronouncement by Hoppe-Seyler.
However, in 1896, stercorin was again
discovered, this time by Bondzynski,
and given the name of koprosterin. To
Flint, however, working with older,
cruder methods, belongs the credit of
having -first isolated the substance in
pure crystalline form.
"Austin Flint was one of the greatest
teachers of the old school of American
Medicine. A forceful orator and skilled
experimentalist, he was the first in this
country to expound the doctrines of the
French school of physiology which in
his early life was at the height of its
renown.
"Dr. Flint took pride in being of the
fifth generation of noted physicians, his
great-grandfather and his father having
borne the name of Austin Flint, a name
which outlives him in a surviving son.
"We, the Faculty of the Cornell Uni-
versity Medical College with which Dr.
Flint was associated during ten years,
hereby record our appreciation of this
life and beg to tender our sympathies to
his family.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News, October 28, 1915 Vol. XVIII., No. 5 p.7
Son of Austin and Anne Flint∼Austin Flint, emeritus professor
of physiology in the Cornell University
Medical College, died at New York on
September 22. He was born at North-
ampton, Mass., on March 28, 1836.
After one year in Harvard College, he
went to the Jefferson Medical College
in Philadelphia and graduated there in
1857. In 1858 he was appointed an
attending surgeon at the Buffalo City
Hospital. He was professor of physiology
successively at the Buffalo Medical
School, the New York Medical College,
the New Orleans School of Medicine,
and the Long Island College Hospital.
He was a founder of the Bellevue Hos-
pital Medical College in 1861 and was
professor of physiology there from the
foundation until 1898, when he joined
the faculty of the new Cornell Univer-
sity Medical College. He retired in
1906.
At the meeting of the Faculty of the
Cornell University Medical College held
at the college on Friday, October 15,
the following memorial was read and
adopted :
"Austin Flint, M.D., LL.D., Professor
Emeritus in the Cornell University Med-
ical College, passed away September 221915, in the eightieth year of his age.
A student of Claude Bernard and of
Robin, he early achieved distinction.
Thus, in 1862, at the age of twenty-five,
he discovered a substance which he
called stercorin, recognizing it as a
derivative of cholestrin. This discovery
was awarded honorable mention by the
Institute of France. It did not receive
full recognition because of an unfavor-
able pronouncement by Hoppe-Seyler.
However, in 1896, stercorin was again
discovered, this time by Bondzynski,
and given the name of koprosterin. To
Flint, however, working with older,
cruder methods, belongs the credit of
having -first isolated the substance in
pure crystalline form.
"Austin Flint was one of the greatest
teachers of the old school of American
Medicine. A forceful orator and skilled
experimentalist, he was the first in this
country to expound the doctrines of the
French school of physiology which in
his early life was at the height of its
renown.
"Dr. Flint took pride in being of the
fifth generation of noted physicians, his
great-grandfather and his father having
borne the name of Austin Flint, a name
which outlives him in a surviving son.
"We, the Faculty of the Cornell Uni-
versity Medical College with which Dr.
Flint was associated during ten years,
hereby record our appreciation of this
life and beg to tender our sympathies to
his family.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News, October 28, 1915 Vol. XVIII., No. 5 p.7
of physiology in the Cornell University
Medical College, died at New York on
September 22. He was born at North-
ampton, Mass., on March 28, 1836.
After one year in Harvard College, he
went to the Jefferson Medical College
in Philadelphia and graduated there in
1857. In 1858 he was appointed an
attending surgeon at the Buffalo City
Hospital. He was professor of physiology
successively at the Buffalo Medical
School, the New York Medical College,
the New Orleans School of Medicine,
and the Long Island College Hospital.
He was a founder of the Bellevue Hos-
pital Medical College in 1861 and was
professor of physiology there from the
foundation until 1898, when he joined
the faculty of the new Cornell Univer-
sity Medical College. He retired in
1906.
At the meeting of the Faculty of the
Cornell University Medical College held
at the college on Friday, October 15,
the following memorial was read and
adopted :
"Austin Flint, M.D., LL.D., Professor
Emeritus in the Cornell University Med-
ical College, passed away September 221915, in the eightieth year of his age.
A student of Claude Bernard and of
Robin, he early achieved distinction.
Thus, in 1862, at the age of twenty-five,
he discovered a substance which he
called stercorin, recognizing it as a
derivative of cholestrin. This discovery
was awarded honorable mention by the
Institute of France. It did not receive
full recognition because of an unfavor-
able pronouncement by Hoppe-Seyler.
However, in 1896, stercorin was again
discovered, this time by Bondzynski,
and given the name of koprosterin. To
Flint, however, working with older,
cruder methods, belongs the credit of
having -first isolated the substance in
pure crystalline form.
"Austin Flint was one of the greatest
teachers of the old school of American
Medicine. A forceful orator and skilled
experimentalist, he was the first in this
country to expound the doctrines of the
French school of physiology which in
his early life was at the height of its
renown.
"Dr. Flint took pride in being of the
fifth generation of noted physicians, his
great-grandfather and his father having
borne the name of Austin Flint, a name
which outlives him in a surviving son.
"We, the Faculty of the Cornell Uni-
versity Medical College with which Dr.
Flint was associated during ten years,
hereby record our appreciation of this
life and beg to tender our sympathies to
his family.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News, October 28, 1915 Vol. XVIII., No. 5 p.7
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
