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Francis Delafield was born on August 3, 1841 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Edward Delafield and his wife, Julia Floyd.
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Francis Delafield was born on August 3, 1841 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Edward Delafield and his wife, Julia Floyd.
After receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 1860 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons' in New York and there received his medical degree in 1863.
On graduation Delafield went immediately to Europe where he continued his medical work in London, Berlin, and Paris, taking full advantage of the opportunities then being offered for detailed postmortem study.
The influence of Rudolf Virchow was at that time beginning to be felt strongly in medical science, and Delafield became an ardent follower.
He returned to America firmly convinced that pathological anatomy was the sine qua non of scientific medicine, and he accordingly passed the greater part of his time during the next thirty years in the post-mortem room making detailed studies of pathological tissues, meticulously correlating his findings with clinical features observed before death.
In 1866 he became curator at Bellevue Hospital, in 1871 pathologist at the Roosevelt Hospital, and in 1875 visiting physician in the Bellevue Hospital. In the following year he was made adjunct professor of pathology and the practise of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and in 1882 was made full professor in the place of Alonzo Clark.
In 1886, in company with William Osier, James Tyson, James Graham, and William Pepper, he founded and became president of the Association of American Physicians, which was to have a profound influence upon the development of medicine. The first meeting of this organization was picturesquely referred to by Osier as “the coming-of-age party of internal medicine in America”. Delafield was a remarkably effective teacher. It is said that his lectures were particularly attractive because of his simple, forceful delivery and the fact that the information which they contained was based wholly on first-hand experience.
In accordance with a decision made early in life, he retired from professional and hospital duties at the age of sixty, though he was then at the height of his physical and mental vigor.
He continued in practise as a consultant until shortly before his death, which resulted from apoplexy, at Noroton, near Stamford, Conn.
His scientific papers number nearly a hundred, and his influence and teachings were widely felt through an unusually successful textbook, A Handbook of Post Mortem Examinations and of Morbid Anatomy, first published in 1872, and revised and enlarged, in collaboration with T. Mitchell Prudden, in 1885.
The twelfth edition appeared in 1922. In 1878 Delafield issued with Charles F. Stillman a Manual of Physical Diagnosis.
His fame as a pathologist was greatly enhanced through the publication of his Studies in Pathological Anatomy, an elaborately illustrated pathological atlas which appeared in parts between 1878 and 1891. He also contributed chapters to many medical and surgical treatises, such as his “Pytemia and Allied Conditions” in The International Encyclopedia of Surgery (1881) and his “Diseases of the Kidneys” in Twentieth Century Practice (1893).
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By nature Delafield was somewhat austere and little given to amusements or levity, but to his students he was stimulating and always sympathetic.
On January 17, 1870 Delafield married Katherine Van Rensselaer of New York.
