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 Philadelphia, Stillé studied classics at Yale, but was expelled for participating in the Conic Sections Rebellion.^[2] He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in the same year, where he received an A.B. degree in 1832.^[3] He went on to earn an A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 and in 1836 an M.D. from the school's 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^[5] the president, of the American Medical Association.^[3] However, as evidenced by his later writings, he was also known for refusing to accept the 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.
^ "Alfred Stillé (1813–1900)". JAMA. 196 (11): 1017. June 1966. doi:10.1001/jama.1966.03100240151042. 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 public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Stillé, Alfred". 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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1847–1875

Nathaniel Chapman (1847–1848)
Alexander Hodgdon Stevens (1848–1849)
John Collins Warren (1849–1850)
Reuben D. Mussey (1850–1851)
James Moultrie (1851–1852)
Beverly R. Wellford (1852–1853)
Jonathan Knight (1853–1854)
Charles A. Pope (1854–1855)
George Bacon Wood (1855–1856)
Zina Pitcher (1856–1857)
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Henry Miller (1859–1860)
Eli Ives (1860–1861)
Alden March (1863–1864)
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David Humphreys Storer (1866–1867)
Henry F. Askew (1867–1868)
Samuel D. Gross (1868–1869)
William O. Baldwin (1869–1870)
George Mendenhall (1870–1871)
Alfred Stillé (1871–1872)
D. W. Yandell (1872–1873)
Thomas M. Logan (1873–1874)
Joseph M. Toner (1874–1875)

1875–1900

W. K. Bowling (1875–1876)
J. Marion Sims (1876–1877)
Henry I. Bowditch (1877–1878)
T. G. Richardson (1878–1879)
Theophilus Parvin (1879–1880)
Lewis Sayre (1880–1881)
John T. Hodgen (1881–1882)
Joseph Janvier Woodward (1882–1883)
John Light Atlee (1883–1884)
Austin Flint I (1884–1885)
H. F. Campbell (1885–1886)
William Brodie (1886–1887)
E. H. Gregory (1887–1888)
A. Y. P. Garnett (1888–1889)
W. W. Dawson (1889–1890)
E. M. Moore (1890–1891)
W. T. Briggs (1891–1892)
H. O. Marcy (1892–1893)
Hunter McGuire (1893–1894)
James F. Hibberd (1894–1895)
Donald MacLean, 1885–1896)
R. Beverly Cole (1896–1897)
Nicholas Senn (1897–1898)
George Miller Sternberg (1898–1899)
J. M. Mathews (1899–1900)

1900–1925

William Williams Keen (1900–1901)
C. A. L. Reed (1901–1902)
John Allan Wyeth (1902–1903)
Frank Billings (1903–1904)
John Herr Musser (1904–1905)
L. S. McMurtry (1905–1906)
William James Mayo (1906–1907)
Joseph D. Bryant (1907–1908)
H. L. Burrell (1908–1909)
William C. Gorgas (1909–1910)
William H. Welch (1910–1911)
John Benjamin Murphy (1911–1912)
Abraham Jacobi (1912–1913)
John A. Witherspoon (1913–1914)
Victor C. Vaughan (1914–1915)
William L. Rodman (1915)
Albert Vander Veer (vice president) (1915–1916)
Rupert Blue (1916–1917)
Charles Horace Mayo (1917–1918)
Arthur D. Bevan (1918–1919)
Alexander Lambert (1919–1920)
William Clarence Braisted (1920–1921)
Hubert Work (1921–1922)
George de Schweinitz (1922–1923)
Ray Lyman Wilbur (1923–1924)
William Allen Pusey (1924–1925)

1925–1950

William D. Haggard (1925–1926)
Wendell C. Phillips (1926–1927)
Jabez N. Jackson (1927–1928)
William W. Thayer (1928–1929)
Malcolm L. Harris (1929–1930)
William Gerry Morgan (1930–1931)
E. Starr Judd (1931–1932)
Edward H. Cary (1932–1933)
Dean D. Lewis (1933–1934)
Walter L. Bierring (1934–1935)
James S. McLester (1935–1936)
James Tate Mason (1936)
Charles G. Heyd (1936–1937)
J. H. J. Upham (1937–1938)
Irvin Abell (1938–1939)
Rock Sleyster (1939–1940)
Nathan B. Van Etten (1940–1941)
Frank Lahey (1941–1942)
Fred W. Rankin (1942–1943)
James E. Paullin (1943–1944)
Herman L. Kretschmer (1944–1945)
Roger I. Lee (1945–1946)
H. H. Shoulders (1946–1947)
Edward L. Bortz (1947–1948)
Roscoe L. Sensenich (1948–1949)
Ernest E. Irons (1949–1950)

1950–1975

Elmer L. Henderson (1950–1951)
John W. Cline (1951–1952)
Louis H. Bauer (1952–1953)
Edward J. McCormick (1953–1954)
Walter B. Martin (1954–1955)
Elmer Hess (1955–1956)
Dwight H. Murray (1956–1957)
David B. Allman (1957–1958)
Gunnar Gundersen (1958–1959)
Louis M. Orr (1959–1960)
E. Vincent Askey (1960–1961)
Leonard W. Larson (1961–1962)
George M. Fister (1962–1963)
Edward R. Annis (1963–1964)
Norman A. Welch (1964)
Donovan F. Ward (vice president) (1964–1965)
James Z. Appel (1965–1966)
Charles L. Hudson (1966–1967)
Milford O. Rouse (1967–1968)
Dwight Locke Wilbur (1968–1969)
Gerald D. Dorman (1969–1970)
W. C. Bornemeier (1970–1971)
Wesley W. Hall (1971–1972)
C. A. Hoffman (1972–1972)
Russell B. Roth (1973–1974)
Malcolm C. Todd (1974–1975)

1975–2000

Max H. Parrott (1975–1976)
Richard E. Palmer (1976–1977)
John H. Budd (1977–1978)
Thomas E. Nesbitt (1978–1979)
Hoyt D. Gardner (1979–1980)
Robert B. Hunter (1980–1981)
Daniel T. Cloud, 1981–1982)
William Y. Rial (1982–1983)
Frank J. Jirka Jr. (1983–1984)
Joseph F. Boyle (1984–1985)
Harrison L. Rogers Jr. (1985–1986)
John J. Coury Jr. (1986–1987)
William S. Hotchkiss (1987–1988)
James E. Davis (1988–1989)
Alan R. Nelson (1989–1990)
C. John Tupper (1990–1991)
John J. Ring (1991–1992)
John L. Clowe (1992–1993)
Joseph T. Painter (1993–1994)
Robert E. McAfee (1994–1995)
Lonnie R. Bristow (1995–1996)
Daniel H. Johnson Jr. (1996–1997)
Percy Wootton (1997–1998)
Nancy Dickey (1998–1999)
Thomas Reardon (1999–2000)

2000–

Randolph D. Smoak Jr. (2000–2001)
Richard F. Corlin (2001–2002)
Yank D. Coble Jr. (2002–2003)
Donald J. Palmisano (2003–2004)
John C. Nelson (2004–2005)
J. Edward Hill (2005–2006)
William G. Plested III (2006–2007)
Ronald M. Davis (2007–2008)
Nancy H. Nielsen (2008–2009)
J. James Rohack (2009–2010)
Cecil B. Wilson (2010–2011)
Peter W. Carmel (2011–2012)
Jeremy A. Lazarus (2012–2013)
Ardis Dee Hoven (2013–2014)
Robert M. Wah (2014–2015)
Steven J. Stack (2015–2016)
Andrew W. Gurman (2016–2017)
David O. Barbe (2017–2018)
Barbara L. McAneny (2018–2019)
Patrice Harris (2019–2020)
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