Flint, Austin (1812-1886)

US doctor. He practised and taught medicine in Boston and Buffalo, New York. He then taught hospital medicine at various medical schools, becoming an authority on pulmonary and respiratory diseases, and popularizing the use of the binaural stethoscope.

He was born in Petersham, Massachusetts and gained his MD at Harvard. His medical teaching career included spells at the University of Louisville and New Orleans Medical College. He helped found Bellevue Medical College in New York City, and taught there and at Long Island College Hospital for many years. He wrote numerous textbooks, of which Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866, with many revised editions) was the best known.