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Alfred was born on October 30, 1813 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, son of John and Maria (Wagner) Stille and elder brother of Charles Janeway Stille.
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Excerpt from Epidemic Meningitis, or Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis -restricting our historical review of the disease to the epidemics of it which have occurred since the beginning of the present century, and, rising for a moment above its individual and local outbreaks, our attention is at once arrested by a circumstance which removes it from the category of endemic, and even of epidemic diseases, in the ordinary sense of the latter word, and entitles it to the'name pandemic. Unlike typhus, and typhoid and yellow fevers, its rise and progress are connected with no antecedents of animal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Alfred was born on October 30, 1813 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, son of John and Maria (Wagner) Stille and elder brother of Charles Janeway Stille.
He attended good preliminary schools and spent some time at Yale College, but left as the result of the "conic section rebellion" to transfer to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated A. B. in 1832, A. M. in 1835, and M. D. in 1836. Fourteen years later he received the degree of M. A. from Yale, and was then enrolled as a member of the college class of 1832.
Upon graduating in medicine Stille became house physician at "Blockley, " now the Philadelphia General Hospital. Here he had the opportunity to study the typhus cases brought to the hospital during the epidemic of 1836 under Dr. William Wood Gerhard, whose observations of these same cases led him to proclaim typhus as fundamentally different from typhoid fever.
After a short service, however, Stille resigned to spend two and a half years in study in Europe, a considerable part of the time in Paris, where he was profoundly influenced by Louis. Returning to Philadelphia, he served as resident physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1839-41, and then entered upon private practice.
From 1849 to 1877 he was a visiting physician to St. Joseph's Hospital. In 1845 he began to lecture on pathology and the practice of medicine for the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction, and continued until 1851. In 1854 he was elected to the chair of practice of medicine in the Pennsylvania Medical College, continuing until 1859.
In 1864 he succeeded the elder William Pepper as professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, holding this office until 1883, when he retired and was made professor emeritus. At this time he gave his valuable medical library to the University.
Of his numerous monographs and papers, Epidemic Meningitis or Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, published in 1867, is still looked upon as classic.
He began to manifest the infirmities of age in his sixties and retired from his professorship and other activities at seventy, to live for seventeen years more, a recluse in his own home, where only a few friends visited him.
He died on September 24, 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in his eighty-seventh year, almost forgotten.
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He was always a proponent of higher standards of education.
Quotations: "Only two things are essential; to live uprightly, and to be wisely industrious. "
He was a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society since 1862, of the Philadelphia Pathological Society, and of the American Medical Association.
He had high sense of morality and dignity. In his later years he was a strikingly handsome old gentleman with delicate, sensitive, well-chiseled features, long white hair that curled about his collar, and a full white beard of considerable length. His appearance was venerable, benevolent, and patriarchal.
In 1841 he had married Caroline Barnett, who afforded him brief companionship and then acquired a mental disease from which she suffered for many years. By his first marriage there were two sons and a daughter.
After her death, he married, in June 1899, Katharine A. Blackiston of Chestertown, Maryland. By his first marriage there were two sons and a daughter.