ALLEN, FREDERICK MADISON (1879- ), Ameri can physician, was born in Des Moines, Ia., on March 16, 1879. He graduated at the University of California in 1902, studied medicine for three years in the University of Chicago, and in 2907 graduated in medicine at the University of California. He made researches on diabetes at the Harvard medical school in 1909-12 and at the Rockefeller institute for medical research in 1913-18. In 1920 he was made director of the Physiatric insti tute, Morristown, N.J., where he continued investigation and treatment of diabetes and related disorders. In 1922 he became the editor of the Journal of Metabolic Research.
His published writings include Studies Concerning Glycosuria and Diabetes (1913), Total Dietary Regulation in the Treatment of Diabetes, with E. Stillman and R. Fitz (1919), and Treatment of Kidney Diseases and High Blood Pressure (1925) .