FLINT, AusTix (1812-36). An American physician, born at Petersham, Mass. Ile was educated at Amherst and Harvard, and grad uated at the latter in 1833. After practicing in Boston and Northampton. he removed to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1836. He was appointed professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in Rush Medi cal College, Chicago; resigned after one year, in 1846. and established the Buffalo Medical Journal. With White and Hamilton he founded the Buffalo Medical College in 1847, where he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine for six years. He was afterwards pro fessor of the theory and practice of medicine in the University of Louisville. Ky., from 1852 to 1856. Re was then called to the chair of path ology and clinical medicine at Buffalo. From 1858 to 1861 he was professor of clinical medi cine in the School of Medicine at New Orleans. In 1859 he removed to New' York, and in 1861 was appointed visiting!, physician to Bellevue Hospital; from 1861 to his death, in 1386. he was
professor of the principles and practice of medi cine in Bellevue Hospital Medical College (con solidated with the medical department of New York University in 1898), and from 1861 to 1868 he was professor of pathology and practical medicine in Long Island College Hospital. He was president of the New York Academy of Medi cine from 1872 to 1885. His published works include: On Continued Fever (1852) ; Chronic Pleurisy (1853) : On Dysentery (1853) ; Physical Exploration in the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (1356; revised 2d ed. 1868) ; Diseases of the Heart (1859; 2d ed. Ism)) Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866; re vised 5th ed. 1834) • Medical Essays on Conser vative Medicine and Kindred Topics (1374): Clinical Medicine (1879) ; On Phthisis (1883); Manual of Auscultation and Permission (re vised 2d ed. 1833). Consult his biography. by Carpenter (New York, 1886).