Author: Augustus Adolph Eshner
Alternate names: Augustus A. Eshner
Born: 17 November 1862
Died: 20 December 1949
Bio: **Augustus Adolph Eshner.** Physician, Professor, since 1895, of Clinical Medicine in Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine. Born November 17, 1862, Memphis, Tenn. 
Son of James Eshner and Johanna Pleschner. Educated in Philadelphia public schools. A. B., 1879; A.M., 1884, Central High School; M. D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Physician to Philadelphia Hospital, since 1896; assistant physician to Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, since 1900; chairman directors Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1904. Resident physician Philadelphia Hospital, 1888 1889; chief clinical assistant out-patient Medical Department Jefferson Medical College Hospital, 1892; adjunct professor clinical medicine Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, 1893; physician to Hospital for Diseases of the Lungs, at Chestnut Hill, 1901-1903. Editor Transactions Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1896, 1897; assistant editor Philadelphia Medical Journal, 1898. Was Secretary Pathological Society of Philadelphia; secretary Philadelphia Neurological Society; second vice-president Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania; second vice-president Philadelphia Pediatric Society. Wrote prize essay in the Department of Practice of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, 1888. Author: Essentials of Medical Diagnosis (with S. Solis Cohen), 1892, 1900; Handbook on Fevers, 1895; American Textbook of Applied Therapeutics (with J. C. Wilson), 1896; Christfried Jakob's Atlas of Methods of Clinical Investigation and Epitome of Clinical Diagnosis and of Special Pathology (translation), 1898; Herman Eichhorst's Textbook of the Practice of Medicine (translation), 1901; L. Landois' Textbook of Human Physiology (translation), 1904. Has contributed numerous articles to medical journals, encyclopedias, and transactions of medical societies. Address: 224 South 16th, Philadelphia, Pa. (from AJYB-1905)