Shattuck, George C. (George Cheyne), 1813-1893

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Birth 1813
Death 1893-03-22

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1835) was professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 until 1874, served as dean of the Medical School, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1849. After graduation from medical school, he went to Paris with his friends H. I. Bowditch, A. Stillé, and Metcalfe to study with Louis. In 1838 he and Stillé read papers which differentiated typhus from typhoid fever before the Paris Society for Medical Observation.

From the description of Papers of George Cheyne Shattuck, 1832-1872 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281430017

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