Alfred Stillé

Alfred Stillé
Alfred Stillé
Born	October 30, 1813; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	September 24, 1900; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education	University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1832); University of Pennsylvania (A.M., 1835); Medical department of the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1836);
Known for	distinguishing between typhus and typhoid fever ;
	Medical career
Profession	Physician, Professor

Alfred Stillé (October 30, 1813 – September 24, 1900) was an American physician.^[1]

Biography

Born in

department of medicine.^[1]

Stillé began to practice in his native city, but spent parts of 1841 and 1851 in Paris and Vienna. From 1854 to 1859 he was professor of medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical College and from 1864 to 1884 at the University of Pennsylvania, later becoming its Chair.^[3]

Stillé was one of the first physicians in America to distinguish between typhus and typhoid fever. His observations in this connection he made during a typhus epidemic in Philadelphia in 1836 and reported in 1838. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1852.^[4]

He acquired a great reputation as a practitioner, teacher, and writer, and was the first secretary, and in 1871–72

germ theory or laboratory medicine.^[3]

Works

Among his numerous works are:

Medical Education in the United States (1846)
Elements of General Pathology (1848)
Therapeutics and Materia Medica (1860; fourth edition, 1874)
Epidemic Meningitis (1867)
Cholera (1867)

He edited with A. Maisch the National Dispensary (1879).

Notes

^ ^a ^b Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). "Stillé, Alfred" . American Medical Biographies . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
PMID 5327970
.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Alfred Stillé (1813–1900)". Penn Biographies. Penn University Archives & Records Center. Retrieved July 14, 2015.

^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-16.

^ "Full List of Annual Meetings and Presidents". American Medical Association. Retrieved 25 November 2012.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
New International Encyclopedia
(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

Alfred Stillé at Find a Grave

Quotations related to Alfred Stillé at Wikiquote

Works by or about Alfred Stillé at Wikisource

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[AMB-1] Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). "Stillé, Alfred" . American Medical Biographies . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.

[2] PMID 5327970
.

[PennBio-3] "Alfred Stillé (1813–1900)". Penn Biographies. Penn University Archives & Records Center. Retrieved July 14, 2015.

[4] "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-16.

[5] "Full List of Annual Meetings and Presidents". American Medical Association. Retrieved 25 November 2012.

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