biography
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Prudden, T(heophil) Mitchell
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| male
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| lived:
| (1849–1924)
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| biography:
| Pathologist, born in Middlebury, Connecticut, USA. After graduating from Yale Medical School, he continued his medical studies in Europe. As a professor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, he was the first American to make the diphtheria antitoxin, used to control an epidemic. In 1901 he became a scientific director of the Rockefeller Institute. He co-wrote the Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology (1885). Also an avid amateur palaeontologist, he wrote On the Great American Plateau (1906). |
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