Background
Arthur Purdy Stout was the fourth son of Joseph and Julia Frances (née Purdy) Stout.
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Arthur Purdy Stout was the fourth son of Joseph and Julia Frances (née Purdy) Stout.
He attended the Pomfret School and Yale University, where he earned an Bachelor of Arts degree in 1907. He completed his Doctor of Medicine
After spending a year abroad, Arthur entered the College of Physicians & Surgeons (CPS) of Columbia University. degree in 1912. Stout was a surgical house-officer at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. He then joined the staff of CPS in 1914 as an Instructor in Surgery.
During World War I, Doctor Stout was a field surgeon in the United States. Army in France (see image at right).
Returning to CPS thereafter, he became an Assistant Professor of Surgery in 1921, an Associate Professor in 1928 and a full Professor in 1947. Beginning in 1950, he also held the concomitant rank of Professor of Pathology.
Although trained as a surgeon, Stout turned all of his attention to the pathomorphologic findings in surgical specimens. In particular, he acquired a special expertise in tumor pathology.
Stout authored over 300 scientific articles and one monograph, entitled Human Cancer (1932).
He also wrote three fascicles for the Atlas of Tumor Pathology, published by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. He belonged to several professional societies and was the recipient of many awards. In 1947, an organization of surgical pathologists was named the "Arthur Purdy Stout Club" in his honor.
When he retired from CPS in 1951, Stout became director of pathology at Francis Delafield Hospital, a municipal cancer hospital affiliated with Columbia University.
Stout died at age 82 on December 21, 1967, from complications of prostatic adenocarcinoma.
lieutenant still exists as the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists, the members of which are dedicated to scholarship in surgical pathology.