Austin Flint II

Austin Flint II (March 28, 1836 – September 21, 1915) was an American physician. He carried out extensive experimental investigations in human physiology and made several important discoveries. He assisted in establishing the glycogenic function of the liver; showed that one of the functions of the liver is to separate from the blood the cholesterin, which is a product of the nervous system. and which, becoming a constituent of the bile, is afterward converted into what he named "stercorin" (better known as coprosterol), the odorous principle of feces. Early life He was born on March 28, 1836, in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Dr. Austin Flint I (1812–1886), who helped found Bellevue Medical College, and Anne Balch Skillings (1814–1894). His younger sister was Susan Willard Flint (1838–1869), who married Brevet Major C. Grover. His aunts included Mrs. Susan Willard Jewett and Mrs. Elizabeth Henshaw Thiverick. He attended medical lectures at the University of Louisville from 1854 to 1856 and one year at Harvard Medical School before graduating from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia in 1857. Flint was one of six generations of physicians spanning from 1733 to 1955.