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John Pierrepont Codrington Foster was born on March 2, 1847 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Eleazer Kingsbury Foster by his wife Mary Codrington.
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John Pierrepont Codrington Foster was born on March 2, 1847 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Eleazer Kingsbury Foster by his wife Mary Codrington.
John Foster received his early education at General Russell’s Collegiate and Commercial Institute. After graduating from Yale in 1869 he developed pulmonary tuberculosis and passed several years in Florida for his health. There he engaged in sugar planting. He eventually returned to New Haven to enter the Yale Medical School, and received the degree of M. D. in 1875.
After receiving his M. D. degree from the Yale Medical School in 1875, Foster began to practise immediately and attended a large number of undergraduates at the university. Through his influence a local infirmary was erected in which members of the university could receive medical treatment. From 1877 till his death he held the position of instructor in anatomy as applied to art under the auspices of the department of fine arts at Yale.
In 1879 he became surgeon to the United States Marine Hospital Service, a post which he held until 1910.
He became convinced very early that rest and fresh air were vital for tuberculosis patients, and he was the first in America to experiment with Koch’s tuberculin which he employed on December 3, 1890, in treating a case of pulmonary tuberculosis. It was used in Baltimore a week later by Osier, but its value as a therapeutic agent is still uncertain.
Foster died on April 1, 1910 of pneumonia.
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Foster’s writings were earnest and clear and through them he did much to stimulate interest in the prevention of tuberculosis.
Foster was a member of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
John Foster had married on July 1, 1875, Josephine Theresa Bicknell of New York.