Alfred Charles Post

Alfred Charles Post (1806 to 1886) was an American surgeon born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College in 1822 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1827, then studied in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London. He taught ophthalmic surgery and then surgery at Castleton Medical College, and from 1851 to 1875 was professor of surgery at New York University, where he later became emeritus professor and president of the medical faculty. He was a fellow of the Academy of Medicine and served as its president in 1867 and 1868. He wrote Observations on the Cure of Stammering in 1841 and invented several surgical instruments and appliances.