About Theophil Mitchell Prudden
Lived 1849 – 1924 (aged 74–75). Theophil Mitchell Prudden was an American physician, pathologist and writer.
Theophil Mitchell Prudden (July 7, 1849 – April 10, 1924) was an American pathologist, born in Middlebury, Connecticut. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1872 and received his M. D. from Yale School of Medicine in 1875. He became an assistant and was professor of pathology (1892-1909) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 1901, he was appointed as a director of the Rockefeller Institute for medical research.
He died of heart disease at his home in New York on April 10, 1924.
Books A Manual of Normal Histology (1881) A Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology (1885; ninth edition, 1911), with F. Delafield Story of the Bacteria (1889) Dust and its Dangers (1891) Drinking Water and Ice Supplies (1891) On the Great American Plateau
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American science writer (1849-1924)
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Theophil Mitchell Prudden was born in 1849 in Middlebury.
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Theophil Mitchell Prudden died in 1924 in New York City.
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Theophil Mitchell Prudden was a physician, pathologist and writer.
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