Alfred Stillé

Alfred Stillé (October 30, 1813 – September 24, 1900) was an American physician and medical educator. He was a professor of medicine at Pennsylvania Medical College from 1864 to 1884 and at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Chair of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was one of the first physicians to differentiate between typhus and typhoid fever. He helped to establish the American Medical Association and served as president from 1871 to 1872.

Early life and education Stillé was born on October 30, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John and Maria (Wagner) Stillé. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received an A.B. degree in 1832. He received an A.M. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 and in 1836 an M.D. from the school's department of medicine. In 1859, he became the president of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia. During the American Civil War, he served as a surgeon at Saterlee Hospital. In 1862 he served as president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. He worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1864 to 1884 and later as Chair of Medicine.

Personal life He married Caroline Christiana Barrett in 1841 and together they three children. Caroline was institutionalized due to mental illness for over 50 years and died in 1899. six weeks after Caroline's death.

Publications Medical Education in the United States: An Address, Delivered to the Students of the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction, at the Close of the Session of 1846., Philadelphia: Isaac Ashmead, 1846 Elements of General Pathology: A Practical Treatise of the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Results of Disease., Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848 The Unity of Medicine. An Introductory Lecture to the Course of Theory and Practice of Medicine, in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College., Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins, 1856 War as an Instrument of Civilization. An Address Before the Society of the Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Collins, 1862 Epidemic Meningitis or Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1867 Therapeutics and Materia Medica. A Systematic Treatise of the Actions and Uses of Medicinal Agents, Including Their Description and History., Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1868 Cholera: Its Origin, History, Causation, Symptoms, Lesions, Prevention, and Treatment., Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1885 The National Dispensatory., Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1887