[Alfred Lebbeus]. American physician, born in Bennington, VT, on the 10th of June 1831; graduated at Union College in 1851, and received the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1853; devoted himself to the study and cure of pulmonary diseases, and soon won a national reputation; visiting physician to Bellevue Hospital in 1860, and to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1874; in 1867 professor of pathology and practice of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, to which a friend of his donated $100,000 for the founding of a Loomis laboratory; president of the New York Pathological and Medical societies, of the New York Academy of Medicine (1890–92), and of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons (1894). He died on the 23rd of January 1895. His best-known books are Lessons in Physical Diagnosis (1877); Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Heart and Kidneys (1876); Lectures on Fevers (1882); Diseases of Old Age (1882); A Text-Book of Practical Medicine (1884).
