Christian Archibald Herter (physician)

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Christian Archibald Herter
BornSeptember 3, 1865
Glenville, Connecticut
DiedDecember 5, 1910
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCollege of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University
Known forgastrointestinal tract
Scientific career
Fieldspathologist
Doctoral advisorWilliam H. Welch

Christian Archibald Herter (September 3, 1865 – December 5, 1910) was an American physician and pathologist noted for his work on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He was co-founder of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Life

Christian Archibald Herter was born in

Auguste-Henri Forel
.

Herter initially practiced mainly

University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College
. His lectures were published in 1902.

Herter returned to his

flora normally belonging to the nursling period – failed to gain acceptance. However, he did correctly identify that any "attempt to encourage growth by the use of increased amounts of carbohydrates" led to relapse. This would later be discovered to be due to the gluten content of wheat
.

Herter was instrumental in the organization of the

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and was on its original Board of Scientific Directors.[2]

In 1905, along with John Jacob Abel, he co-founded and edited the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Herter financed the loss-making journal until his death, whereupon a fund was created in his memory to support it.

Herter married Susan Dows in 1885, and fathered three daughters (Mary, Christine, and Susan), and two sons died in infancy.

Scarborough-on-Hudson, near Scarsdale, New York
and continued Herter's unfinished research.

The Christian A. Herter Lectures

In 1903, Herter established a memorial

lectureship in remembrance of his second son Albert, who died the previous year at the age of 2. In addition, he established a similar lectureship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The lecture series began in 1904 and has continued yearly since.[3]

The lectures are given at the New York University School of Medicine, under the sponsorship of the Department of Biochemsitry. The lecturers are by invitation, and over the years have included some of the most illustrious members of the scientific community, such as Nobel Prize laureates Albrecht Kossel and Konrad Emil Bloch.[3]

Publications

  • The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System: A Manual for Students and Practitioners. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York and London, 1892.
  • Lectures on Chemical Pathology in its Relation to Practical Medicine. Smith, Elder & Co. Philadelphia, 1902.
  • The Influence of Pasteur on medical science. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1904.
  • The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications Arising from Them'. Macmillan. New York, 1907.
  • On Infantilism from Chronic Intestinal Infection. Macmillan. New York, 1908.
  • Imagination and Idealism in the Medical Sciences. American Medical Association. 1910.
  • Biological Aspects of Human Problems. Macmillan. New York, 1911.

References

  1. ^ "The Christian A. Herter Collection". The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  2. LCCN 64-24275
    .
  3. ^
    New York University School of Medicine. 2011. Archived from the original
    on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2011.

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