Theophil Mitchell Prudden

Portrait of Theophill Mitchell Prudden by William Sergeant Kendall, 1909

Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849-1924) was an American pathologist, born in Middlebury, Connecticut. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1872 and received his M. D. from Yale School of Medicine in 1875. He became an assistant (1879) and was professor of pathology (1892-1909) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 1901 he was made a director of the Rockefeller Institute for medical research. His writings include:

• A Manual of Normal Histology (1881)
• A Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology (1885; ninth edition, 1911), with F. Delafield
• Story of the Bacteria (1889)
• Dust and its Dangers (1891)
• Drinking Water and Ice Supplies (1891)
• On the Great American Plateau

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Prudden". New International Encyclopedia. 14 (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 608.

External links

• Theophil Mitchell Prudden — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences