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Atlee, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1828-1910
1828-1910
Dr. Walter Franklin Atlee was born on October 12, 1828, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
He pursued a career in medicine and completed his undergraduate studies at St. Paul's College of Yale University in 1846. In 1850, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a medical degree. Afterward, he went to France, where he met and married Louise Caussade in 1856. Dr. Atlee worked in Paris and several other cities for six years before returning to Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine for half a century. He was a frequent contributor to Hay's American Journal of the Medical Sciences and translated the book “Bernard and Robin on the Blood” (1854). He also edited Nelatin's Clinical Surgery.
He died on August 18, 1910, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.