Alexander Crever Abbott

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Birth: 1860, Feb. 26
Death: 1935
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

  • Baltimore City

Directories

Date Name Occupation Address City
1890 Alex C. Abbott physician Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore City
1890 Alex C. Abbott physician Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore

Additional Information

  • Dates:
    Notes: ABBOTT, ALEXANDER C., physician, educator, was born Feb. 26, 1860, in Baltimore, Md. He is the chief of division of bacteriology, pathology, and disinfection of the bureau of health of Philadelphia, Pa.; and fills the chair of hygiene in the Pennsylvania University.

    Source: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, IL: American Publishers’ Association, 1902): 18.
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  • Dates: 1860-?
    Notes: Born at Baltimore, February 26, 1860. M.D., University of Maryland, 1884; Assistant in Bacteriology and Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University, 1889-91; First Assistant Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania, 1891-96; Director of Laboratory ·of Hygiene and Professor of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania. 1896-: Director of Laboratory of Hygiene, Bureau of Health, Philadelphia, 1897-; author of “Principles of Bacteriology,” 12mo, first edition, Philadelphia, 1812; sixth edition, 1902; “Hygiene Of Transmissible Diseases,” 8vo, Philadelphia, 1899.
    Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 297
  • Dates: 1884
    Notes: M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine.
    Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 161
  • Dates: 1884-1885
    Notes: Clinical Assistant, Diseases of Throat and Chest, Women’s Medical College, Baltimore
    Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 103
  • Dates: 1884-1886
    Notes: Faculty, Women’s Medical College, Baltimore
    Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 114
  • Dates: 1890
    Notes: “Physicians from New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other places are going to Berlin to study Koch’s method of treating tuberculosis. Dr. A. C. Abbott, of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, left last Wednesday for Berlin.”
    Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 114Medical Items Maryland Medical Journal XXIV November 22, 1890: 88
  • Dates: var. dates
    Notes: Abbott, Alexander Crever 1860-1935
    See: Index to Scientists of the World from Ancient to Modern Times. Biographies and portraits. By Norma Olin Ireland. Boston: F.W. Faxon Co., 1962. (InSci)
    See: Who Was Who in America. A component volume of “Who’s Who in American History.” Volume 1, 1897-1942. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. (WhAm 1)

    Source: Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
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Bibliography

  • Abbott, Alexander Crever, The principles of bacteriology: a practical manual for students and physicians by A.C. Abbott… Philadelphia, New York: Lea Brothers & Co..