Francis Delafield

The Century has also to record the loss of eminent members of the medical profession. Francis Delafield, the son of Dr. Edward Delafield, formerly President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduated at Yale at the youthful age of nineteen—thirty years later his Alma Mater honored him with the degree of LL.D. In 1863 he received his M.D. from the “P. & S.,” and afterwards studied in London, Berlin, and Paris. Returning to take up practice in New York, his pathological investigations soon drew the attention of his brethren. He was appointed surgeon to the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary in 1871, and the same year pathologist to Roosevelt Hospital. In 1874 he became one of the physicians at Bellevue, and the next year adjunct Professor of Medicine under Dr. Alonzo Clark, upon whose retirement he succeeded to the full professorship. He was the first President of the Association of American Physicians. Constantly he enlarged the sum of his experience and knowledge, and enhanced his reputation as a practicing and consulting physician. He will be remembered as wise in reticence. He was the author of many and valuable medical treatises; among them his Studies in Pathological Anatomy and Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology, in which he collaborated with Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook