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M. C. (Milton C.) Winternitz
1885–1959
A leading American pathologist and medical educator, he wrote clearly about disease at a time when modern medicine was rapidly changing. His work on influenza and wartime injuries offers a vivid window into early twentieth-century medical science.
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The pathology of influenza
by M. C. (Milton C.) Winternitz, Frank P. McNamara, Isabel M. Wason
About the author
Milton Charles Winternitz was an American physician, pathologist, and medical writer born in 1885. He studied at Johns Hopkins and went on to teach and practice pathology there before joining Yale, where he became professor of pathology and bacteriology and later served for many years as dean of the medical school.
As an author, he is best known for medical works including The Pathology of Influenza and studies on war gas poisoning. His writing grew directly out of laboratory and clinical experience, helping preserve how doctors and researchers understood major public health and wartime challenges in the early 1900s.
Winternitz died in 1959. He is remembered not only for his books and research, but also for the large role he played in shaping American medical education during the first half of the twentieth century.