Austin Flint II

Austin Flint II (March 28, 1836 – September 21, 1915) was an American physician. and Anne Balch Skillings (1814–1894). His younger sister was Susan Willard Flint (1838–1869), who married Brevet Major C. Grover. His aunts included Mrs. Susan Willard Jewett and Mrs. Elizabeth Henshaw Thiverick.

He attended medical lectures at the University of Louisville from 1854 to 1856 and one year at Harvard Medical School before graduating from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia in 1857. In 1859, he removed to New York City with his father and was appointed professor of physiology in New York Medical College. He was professor of physiology in the New Orleans Medical College in 1860 and studied in Europe in 1860 and 1861.

He was, in 1874, Surgeon General of New York. He was a member of the executive committee of the New York Prison Association in 1890. He was decorated with the order of Bolivar (third class) of Venezuela in 1891. Flint was president of the New York State Medical Association in 1895; president of the Medical Association of the Greater City of New York in 1899.

He was a member of the following scientific organizations: The American Medical Association; the New York County Medical Association; the American Academy of Medicine (honorary); Association of Military Surgeons of the United States; American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Academy of Science, and the American Medico-Psychological Association, of which he became a member in 1899. He was also a member of the Century Association of New York.

Publications His principal works are:

The Physiology of Man (fourth edition, 1888) Chemical Examinations of Urine in Diseases (six editions, 1870–1884) Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exercises (1871) Source of Muscular Power (1878) Text-Book of Human Physiology (1875) Experiments Regarding a New Function of the Liver, Separating the Cholesterin of the Blood and Eliminating it as Stercorin (1862) The Physiology of the Nervous System (1872) Mechanism of Reflex Nervous Action in Normal Respiration (1874) The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus (1884) Chemical Examination of the Urine in Disease (1893) Stercorin and Cholesterœmia (1897) Handbook of Physiology (1905)

Terms Flint's arcade — an arteriovenous arch at the base of the renal pyramids. Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)