The Physiology of Man: designed to represent the Existing State of physiological Science, as applied to the Functions of the Human Body

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874. Second edition.

1874 AUSTIN FLINT, JR. "THE MOST ELABORATE TREATISE UPON THE SUBJECT OF PHYSIOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE".

Five volumes, 9 inches tall hardcovers, original brown pebbled cloth boards, wood engravings in text, institutional bookplate front paste-down of each volume, of each volume, signature of J. C. Mackenzie, front endpapers. Corners bumped, spine ends frayed, white library numbers bottom of spines, text unmarked and very good. Vol. 1. Introduction, blood, circulation, respiration, 502 pp, publisher's advertisements; Vol. 2. Alimentation, digestion, absorption, lymph and chyle, 556 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 3. Secretion, excretion, ductless glands, nutrition, animal heat, movements, voice and speech, 526 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 4. Nervous system, 470 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 5. Special senses, generation, 517, publisher's ads. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.

AUSTIN FLINT II (1836 - 1915) was an American physician. He carried out extensive experimental investigations in human physiology and made several important discoveries. He assisted in establishing the glycogenic function of the liver; showed that one of the functions of the liver is to separate from the blood the cholesterin, which is a product of the nervous system. and which, becoming a constituent of the bile, is afterward converted into what he named "stercorin" (better known as coprosterol), the odorous principle of feces. He was born on March 28, 1836 in Northampton, Massachusetts to Austin Flint I. He attended medical lectures at the University of Louisville from 1854 to 1856 and in 1856 and 1857 at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. From 1857 to 1859 he was editor of the Buffalo Medical Journal, surgeon of Buffalo City Hospital, and professor of physiology and microscopical anatomy in the University at Buffalo. 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 professor of physiology and microscopic anatomy in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, from 1861 till that institution was consolidated with the medical department of New York University in 1898, when he was appointed professor of physiology in Cornell University Medical College. Flint was married at Ballston, New York on December 23, 1862, to Elizabeth B. McMaster. They had four children, one of whom, also named Austin Flint III, was the fifth in direct line of physicians in the Flint family. 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. REVIEW in Popular Science Monthly, May 1876: "This gentleman has won his scientific eminence in the field of physiology. Though but forty years of age, he has attained the highest rank in his chosen department as an experimental inquirer, teacher, and author-having published the most elaborate treatise upon the subject of physiology in the English language. Claude Bernard has been the eminent advocate of the theory that the liver is a sugar-producing organ; but observations upon this subject were discordant, and eminent physiologists contested Bernard's position. In 1869 Dr. Flint published, in the New York Medical Journal, a series of experiments upon the "glycogenic function of the liver," in which he endeavored to harmonize the various conflicting observations, and is considered by most physiologists to have settled the question. In 1866 he announced the publication of the "Physiology of Man," a work in five volumes, of 500 pages each, and the last volume was issued in 1874.

PROVENANCE: J. C. MACKENZIE, M.D. was Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine, Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, OH.