FLINSBERG, a village of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Queis, at the foot of the Iserkamm, 1,725 f t. above the sea, south of Friedeberg, the terminus station of the railway from Greiffenberg. Pop. (1933) 2,843. It has some manu factures of wooden wares. Flinsberg is celebrated for its chalybeate waters for bathing and drinking, and as a climatic health resort. FLINT, AUSTIN (1812-1886), American physician, was born at Petersham, Mass., on Oct. 20, 1812, and graduated in medicine at Harvard university in 1833. From 1847 to 1852 he was professor of medicine in Buffalo Medical college, of which he was one of the founders, and in 1852-56 he filled the same chair in the University of Louisville. From 1861 to 1886 he was professor of medicine in Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York. He wrote many text-books on medical subjects, among these being Diseases of the Heart (I859-7o) ; Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866) ; Clinical Medicine (1879) ; and Physical Exploration of the Lungs (1882). He died in New York on March 13, 1886.
His son, AUSTIN FLINT (1836-1915), who was born at North ampton, Mass., on March 28, 1836, after studying at Harvard and at the University of Louisville, graduated at the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, in 1857. He then became pro fessor of physiology at the University of Buffalo (1858) and subsequently at other centres, his last connection being with the Cornell University Medical college (1898-1906) . His Text-book of Human Physiology (18 76) was for many years a standard book in American medical colleges. He also published an extensive Physiology of Man (5 vols., 1866-1874) and other valuable medi cal works. He died in New York city on Sept. 23, 1915.