Albert H. (Albert Henry) Buck

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Albert H. (Albert Henry) Buck

1842–1922

Best known as an American ear specialist who later turned to medical history, this Yale-educated physician wrote practical works on ear disease as well as the wide-ranging classic The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to About 1800. His career joined hands-on clinical work with a gift for explaining how medicine developed over centuries.

2 Audiobooks

The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800

The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800

by Albert H. (Albert Henry) Buck

The Dawn of Modern Medicine An Account of the Revival of the Science and Art of Medicine Which Took Place in Western Europe During the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century and the First Part of the Nineteenth

The Dawn of Modern Medicine An Account of the Revival of the Science and Art of Medicine Which Took Place in Western Europe During the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century and the First Part of the Nineteenth

by Albert H. (Albert Henry) Buck

About the author

Born in 1842 and dying in 1922, Albert Henry Buck was an American physician, writer, and historian of medicine. Sources consistently describe him as an otologist—a specialist in diseases of the ear—and his books show how strongly he focused on making medical knowledge useful to students and practicing doctors.

Buck studied at Yale and went on to build his career in New York. He served as an aural surgeon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and later taught diseases of the ear at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was also associated with the New York Otological Society, where he is identified as its first president.

His published work ranges from technical medical texts such as Diagnosis and Treatment of Ear Diseases, A Manual of Diseases of the Ear, and First Principles of Otology to the broader historical study The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to About 1800, published by Yale University Press in 1917. That mix of practical medicine and historical curiosity gives his writing a lasting appeal for listeners interested not just in medicine itself, but in how medical thought evolved.