POST, ALFRED CIIARLES (1806-86). An emi nent American surgeon. Born in New York City, where he passed all of his life with the exception of a few years, Dr. Post graduated at Co lumbia College in 1822, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. New York City. in 1827; studied in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Lon don. 1827-29; was demonstrator of anatomy in College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, professor in the Castleton Medical College, Vermont, of ophthalmic surgery, 1842-44, and of surgery 1844-51; professor of surgery in New York University, 1851-75, and emeritus professor of same, 1875-86; president of medical faculty of same, 1873-86; attending surgeon to New York Hospital, 1836-52; consulting surgeon to same 1852-86; consulting surgeon to Saint Luke's Hospital and attending surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, and president of the med ical board of the Women's Hospital, in New York City. He was a Fellow of the Academy of Medi
cine, of which he was vice-president 1861-66. and president 1867-68. He was also vice-president of the American Medical Association. Dr. Post pub lished several orations delivered before medical bodies, and also Observations on. the Cure of Stammering (1541). He was also the inventor of several surgical instruments and appliances. His son, GEORGE E. a physician and bota nist. was born in New York City. He studied art, medicine, and theology, and became professor of surgery in the Protestant Syrian College at Beirut. There he became distinguished both as a physician and as a botanist. He wrote and translated many books, one of the most important being Flora of Syria., Palestine, and Sinai.