. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. Fig. 47.—Austin Flint, (From a steel engraving by H. B. Hall.) Alonzo Clark (1807-1887) was one of the most eminentteachers of medicine that this country has produced. AustinFlint (1812-1886) was also a famous teacher of medicinein New York, who made his first reputation in the thensmall school in Buffalo. His text-book on Practice is themost popular American work on the subject that has everappeared, and is still in general use. William P. Dewees NOTABLE AMERICAN PRACTITIONERS.
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. Fig. 47.—Austin Flint, (From a steel engraving by H. B. Hall.) Alonzo Clark (1807-1887) was one of the most eminentteachers of medicine that this country has produced. AustinFlint (1812-1886) was also a famous teacher of medicinein New York, who made his first reputation in the thensmall school in Buffalo. His text-book on Practice is themost popular American work on the subject that has everappeared, and is still in general use. William P. Dewees NOTABLE AMERICAN PRACTITIONERS. 289 (1768-1841) was the author of a treatise upon Diseasesof Children, which reached a tenth edition and whichrivaled the similar treatise of John Forsyth Meigs. Thebest-known teacher of dermatology and venereal diseaseswas Freeman J. Bumstead (18k26-1879), author of themost popular work upon the latter subject that has beenissued from the medical press. He was professor of thesediseases at the College of Physicians in New York. His. IHHB9I Fig. -18.—Isaac Ray, (From a steel engraving by II. Meyer of au original painting in the British Museum.) text-book vied with that produced by William H. VanBuren (1819-1883), who, in connection with Dr. Keyes(still living), wrote a treatise upon the Surgical Diseasesof the Genito-Urinary Organs, including syphilis, whichhas been, since its appearance, exceedingly popular withthe medical profession. Among the best-known neurologists and alienists ofthe century since Benjamin Rush wrote his Inquiries and 290 THE HISTORY OF MEDICIJNE. Observations upon Diseases of the Mind (1812) was Ray, who, in 1838, published a work upon themedical jurisprudence of insanity. Dr. Brigham (1798-1849) was superintendent of the Utica Insane-asylum forsome years before his death; and Dr. Kirkbride, who diedin 1883, had been superintendent of the PhiladelphiaAsylum for over forty years. Dr. John P. Gray followedBrigham as superintendent of the U
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