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Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967) was an American
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Early years and education

Arthur Purdy Stout was the fourth son of Joseph and Julia Frances (née Purdy) Stout. He attended the
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, where he earned an A.B. degree in 1907. After spending a year abroad, Arthur entered the College of Physicians & Surgeons (CPS) of
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. He completed his M.D. degree in 1912.Stout AP: Notes on the education of an "oncological" surgical pathologist: the autobiography of Arthur Purdy Stout. IN: ''Guiding the Surgeon's Hand'' (Rosai J, Ed), American Registry of Pathology, Washington, D.C., 1997; pp. 197-274.


Career at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York

Stout was a surgical house-officer at
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in New York City; he then joined the staff of CPS in 1914 as an instructor in surgery. During World War I, Dr. Stout was a field surgeon in the U.S. Army in France (see image at right). Returning to CPS thereafter, he became an assistant professor of surgery in 1921, an associate professor in 1928 and a full Professor in 1947. Beginning in 1950, he also held the concomitant rank of Professor of Pathology. Although trained as a surgeon, Stout turned all of his attention to the pathomorphologic findings in surgical specimens. In particular, he acquired a special expertise in tumor pathology. He served as director of the Laboratory of Surgical Pathology at the
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from the late 1920s until the early 1950s, and there trained many future leaders in diagnostic pathology. His colleagues included several prominent physicians and scientists, such as Virginia Kneeland Frantz, Cushman Haagensen, Saul Kay, Robert Totten, Margaret Ransone Murray, and Raffaele Lattes, who succeeded Stout as director of the laboratory. Stout authored over 300 scientific articles and one monograph, entitled ''Human Cancer'' (1932). He also wrote three fascicles for the ''Atlas of Tumor Pathology'', published by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. He belonged to several professional societies and was the recipient of many awards. In 1947, an organization of surgical pathologists was named the "Arthur Purdy Stout Club" in his honor. It still exists as the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists, (Accessed 8-22-23) the members of which are dedicated to scholarship in surgical pathology.


Retirement and subsequent years

When he retired from CPS in 1951, Stout became director of pathology at Francis Delafield Hospital, a municipal cancer hospital affiliated with Columbia University. In 1954, he coined the term ''
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'', describing myofibromatosis). He remained a professor emeritus of Surgery at Columbia and a Consulting Pathologist at both Delafield and Presbyterian Hospitals. Stout died at age 82 on December 21, 1967, from complications of
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Personal life

Dr. Stout married Jean Stoddart in 1915. She was born in Canada. They had one child, Julia Frances Stout, whose birthday was in 1916.https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/43886801:60901


References


External links


The Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathology
Photographs of Arthur Purdy Stout Club members up to 1970: * http://www.mc.uky.edu/apss/presentation/History%20of%20Arthur%20Purdy%20Stout%20Society/History%20of%20Arthur%20Purdy%20Stout%20Society.swf {{DEFAULTSORT:Stout, Arthur Purdy American pathologists Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni Columbia University faculty 1885 births 1967 deaths Yale University alumni United States Army personnel of World War I United States Army Medical Corps officers Pomfret School alumni