Alfred Stillé was an American

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 physician. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at Yale

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 (but was expelled for participating in the Conic Sections Rebellion

Conic Sections Rebellion

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) and at the University of Pennsylvania

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 (M.D., 1836). He settled in practice in his native city, but spent parts of 1841 and 1851 in Paris

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 and Vienna

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. From 1854 to 1859 he was professor

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 of medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical College

Drexel University College of Medicine

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 and from 1864 to 1884 at the University of Pennsylvania. Stillé was one of the first in America to distinguish between typhus

Typhus

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 and typhoid fever

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. His observations in this connection he made during a typhus epidemic in Philadelphia in 1836 and reported in 1838. He acquired a great reputation as a practitioner, teacher, and writer, and was the first secretary, and in 1867 the president, of the American Medical Association

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.

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. Maish the National Dispensary (1879).