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Henry Asbury Christian was born on February 17, 1876 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. He was the son of Camillus and Mary Elizabeth Davis Christian.
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Henry Asbury Christian was born on February 17, 1876 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. He was the son of Camillus and Mary Elizabeth Davis Christian.
He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1895 and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1900. He received the A. M. from Harvard College in 1903.
Christian was then appointed assistant pathologist to Frank Burr Mallory at Boston City Hospital; he also taught pathology at the Harvard Medical School from 1903 to 1905. But his interest soon shifted to internal medicine, and in 1905 he became an instructor in that field. In 1907 he became assistant professor of theory and practice of physic, and from 1908 to 1912 he served as dean of the medical school. In 1907 he was appointed physician-in-chief of the Carney Hospital, while the following year he succeeded Reginald Heber Fitz as Hersey professor of the theory and practice of physic, a post that he held for thirty-one years. With the opening of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1910, Christian joined the staff. Under a then novel arrangement the hospital and the School of Medicine paid salaries to Christian and the other senior staff. Fitz had introduced as part of the fourth-year course in medicine a clinical clerkship by placing senior students in the hospital wards for a month at a time. When Christian joined the hospital Fitz appointed him to supervise the students. He brought about close collaboration between the hospital wards and the laboratories, setting up small laboratories in the wards for the use of the house officers and insisting that much of the laboratory work be done by them. One of the outstanding features of Christian's practice and teaching was his insistence that staff and students learn to "observe, record, tabulate, and communicate"--evidence of the strong influence that Sir William Osler had exerted upon him during his student years at Johns Hopkins. Christian and his colleague, the surgeon Harvey Cushing, made Peter Bent Brigham primarily a teaching and research hospital. He also gave special attention to disease of the heart muscle, shifting attention from the previously dominant clinical emphasis on valvular heart disease. Christian served as a major in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army from 1918 to 1921. At the end of World War I he served as chairman of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council. Christian was always interested in the activities of medical organizations, especially the Association of American Physicians, the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and the section on pathology and physiology of the American Medical Association. In 1906 he became secretary of the newly formed American Society for Clinical Investigation, which is still an effective stimulus for advancing knowledge of disease in man. He became president of the organization in 1919. During his later years he was also editor of the fourteen-volume Oxford Loose-Leaf Medicine (1949). Although Christian retired in 1939, during World War II he returned to active teaching at the Harvard Medical School and served as visiting physician at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1942 to 1946. In 1943 he was clinical professor of medicine at Tufts College Medical School.
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He married Elizabeth Sears Seabury on June 30, 1921; they had no children.