President of the Visiting Physicians at St. Luke's Hospital.
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From FAG contributor Ginny M;
Physician. First chairperson of Columbia University's Department of Pathology .
He graduated Williams College in 1828 and received a degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1835. He then toured Europe, learning percussion (tapping used to assess the thorax and abdomen), the use of the microscope and the stethoscope. He put these practices to use at Bellevue Hospital, where he was a visiting physician, discontinuing long used, ineffective treatments with new practices. He cleaned up the typhus ward, stopped treatment of peritonitis that relied on bleeding and mercurials.
Alonzo Clark began his teaching career as Professor of Pathology and Malaria Medicine at Vermont Medical College in Burlington,and taught physiology and pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1848-1855). He held the Chair of Practice (in Pathology from 1855-1885 and from 1875 and until 1885 was simultaneously Dean of Physicians & Surgeons.
He was president of Visiting Physicians at St. Luke's Hospital, and in 1853 was president of the State Medical Society.
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From FAG contributor Ginny M;
Physician. First chairperson of Columbia University's Department of Pathology .
He graduated Williams College in 1828 and received a degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1835. He then toured Europe, learning percussion (tapping used to assess the thorax and abdomen), the use of the microscope and the stethoscope. He put these practices to use at Bellevue Hospital, where he was a visiting physician, discontinuing long used, ineffective treatments with new practices. He cleaned up the typhus ward, stopped treatment of peritonitis that relied on bleeding and mercurials.
Alonzo Clark began his teaching career as Professor of Pathology and Malaria Medicine at Vermont Medical College in Burlington,and taught physiology and pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1848-1855). He held the Chair of Practice (in Pathology from 1855-1885 and from 1875 and until 1885 was simultaneously Dean of Physicians & Surgeons.
He was president of Visiting Physicians at St. Luke's Hospital, and in 1853 was president of the State Medical Society.
President of the Visiting Physicians at St. Luke's Hospital.
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From FAG contributor Ginny M;
Physician. First chairperson of Columbia University's Department of Pathology .
He graduated Williams College in 1828 and received a degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1835. He then toured Europe, learning percussion (tapping used to assess the thorax and abdomen), the use of the microscope and the stethoscope. He put these practices to use at Bellevue Hospital, where he was a visiting physician, discontinuing long used, ineffective treatments with new practices. He cleaned up the typhus ward, stopped treatment of peritonitis that relied on bleeding and mercurials.
Alonzo Clark began his teaching career as Professor of Pathology and Malaria Medicine at Vermont Medical College in Burlington,and taught physiology and pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1848-1855). He held the Chair of Practice (in Pathology from 1855-1885 and from 1875 and until 1885 was simultaneously Dean of Physicians & Surgeons.
He was president of Visiting Physicians at St. Luke's Hospital, and in 1853 was president of the State Medical Society.
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From FAG contributor Ginny M;
Physician. First chairperson of Columbia University's Department of Pathology .
He graduated Williams College in 1828 and received a degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1835. He then toured Europe, learning percussion (tapping used to assess the thorax and abdomen), the use of the microscope and the stethoscope. He put these practices to use at Bellevue Hospital, where he was a visiting physician, discontinuing long used, ineffective treatments with new practices. He cleaned up the typhus ward, stopped treatment of peritonitis that relied on bleeding and mercurials.
Alonzo Clark began his teaching career as Professor of Pathology and Malaria Medicine at Vermont Medical College in Burlington,and taught physiology and pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1848-1855). He held the Chair of Practice (in Pathology from 1855-1885 and from 1875 and until 1885 was simultaneously Dean of Physicians & Surgeons.
He was president of Visiting Physicians at St. Luke's Hospital, and in 1853 was president of the State Medical Society.
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