FLINT, Austin, American physician, far, the preceding: b. Northampton, 1836; d. New York, 23 Sept. 1915. He graduated from the Jefferson Medical Co Philadelphia 1857. For the two years follor. he combined the duties of editor of the Medical Journal, surgeon of Buffalo City 11'1' filial and professor of physiology and micro copical anatomy at the University of Buffalo. le then set up a practise in New York city, and occupied the chair of physiology at the gew York Medical College. He filled a simi ar position at the New Orleans Medical Col ege (1860). After a year of study in Europe, le returned to the United States and taught hysiology and microscopic anatomy at Bellevue Hospital, resigning in 1898 to accept the pro fessorship of physiology at Cornell University Medical College (New York city). Dr. Flint's -esearches in the function of the liver were ignifieant. He demonstrated the separation of
he cholestrin from the blood by the liver, and is final conversion into estercorin,* the factor letermining the odor of the feces. In 1874 he as appointed surgeon-general of New York ;tate. He wrote 'The Physiology of Man' 1888) ; 'Chemical Examinations of Urine in (6 eds., 1870-84) ; 'Effects of Severe .nd Protracted Muscular Exercises' (1871) ; Source of Muscular Power' (1878) ; 'Text look of Human Physiology' (1875) ; 'Experi nents Regarding a New Function of the (1862) ; 'The Physiology of the Ner rous System' (1872) ; 'Mechanism of Reflex qervous Action in Normal Respiration' (1874); The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus' (1884) ; Chemical Examination of the Urine in Das mse> (1893) ; and Cholesterwinie ;1897) ; 'Handbook of Physiology' (1905).