Austin Flint (1812 -1886) was an American physician. He was educated at Amherst and Harvard and began his practice in Boston. A Manual Of Percussion And Auscultation: Of The Physical Diagnosis Of Diseases Of The Lungs And Heart And Of Thoracic Aneurism was first published in 1876. Subjects covered include Percussion in health, Percussion in disease, auscultation in health, auscultation in disease, diagnosis of diseases of the respiratory system, condition of the heart in health and disease, and diseases of the heart and thoracic aneurism,