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Theophil Mitchell Prudden

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Portrait of Theophill Mitchell Prudden by William Sergeant Kendall, 1909

Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849 – April 10, 1924) was an American pathologist, born in Middlebury, Connecticut. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1872 and received his M. D. from Yale School of Medicine in 1875.[1] He became an assistant (1879) and was professor of pathology (1892-1909) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 1901 he was made a director of the Rockefeller Institute for medical research.

He died at his home in New York on April 10, 1924.[2]

Books

  • A Manual of Normal Histology (1881)
  • A Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology (1885; ninth edition, 1911), with F. Delafield
  • Story of the Bacteria (1889)
  • Dust and its Dangers (1891)
  • Drinking Water and Ice Supplies (1891)
  • On the Great American Plateau

References

  1. ^ "Collection: Theophil Mitchell Prudden papers | Archives at Yale". archives.yale.edu.
  2. ^ "Theophile M. Prudden Suddenly Succumbs". Bridgeport Telegram. New York. April 11, 1924. p. 1. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

Attribution

wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainGilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Prudden". New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 14 (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 608.

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