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Henry Asbury Christian

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Henry Asbury Christian
Born(1876-02-18)February 18, 1876
Lynchburg, Virginia
DiedAugust 24, 1951(1951-08-24) (aged 75)
Whitefield, New Hampshire
Resting placeMount Auburn Cemetery
Education
Occupation(s)Physician, educator
Spouse
Elizabeth Sears Seabury
(m. 1921)
Signature

Henry Asbury Christian (February 17, 1876 – August 24, 1951), was an American professor of pathology named in the condition Hand–Schüller–Christian disease.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

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Henry Asbury Christian was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on February 17, 1876. He earned A.B. and A.M. degrees from Randolph–Macon College in 1895, an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1900, and an A.M. from Harvard in 1903.[5]

He married Elizabeth Sears Seabury on June 30, 1921.[5]

He died while on vacation in Whitefield, New Hampshire on August 24, 1951, and was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Sturgis, Cyrus C. (1952). "Dr. Henry Asbury Christian". Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. 63: lv–lviii. PMC 2248850.
  2. ^ Pluot, Etienne; Davies, Mark; James, Steven L. J. (2009). "Who was who in bone tumours". In Davies, A. Mark; Sundaram, Murali; James, Steven J. (eds.). Imaging of Bone Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions: Techniques and Applications. Springer. p. 681. ISBN 978-3-540-77982-7.
  3. ^ "Obituary; Henry Asbury Christian". New England Journal of Medicine. 245 (23): 912–913. December 6, 1951. doi:10.1056/NEJM195112062452312. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 14882449.
  4. ^ Monroe, Robert Thornhill (1936). Medical papers, dedicated to Henry Asbury Christian, physician and teacher, in honor of his sixtieth birthday, February 17, 1936. Baltimore: Printed at the Waverly Press, Inc. OCLC 910506.
  5. ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XVIII. James T. White & Company. 1922. p. 17. Retrieved December 26, 2020 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "Dr. Henry A. Christian". The Boston Globe. August 28, 1951. p. 20. Retrieved December 27, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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