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Theophil Mitchell Prudden

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Name
  
Theophil Prudden


Role
  
Physician

Died
  
1924, New York City, New York, United States

Education
  
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University

Books
  
Dust and Its Dangers, Drinking‑water and Ice Supplies, A Manual of Practical Normal H, Biographical Sketches and Lette

Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849-1924) was an American pathologist, born at Middlebury, Connecticut. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1872 and received his M. D. from Yale School of Medicine in 1875. 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. His writings include:

  • 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

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