Alfred Lebbeus Loomis

and again Union College with an A.M.[1] At this time, the science of auscultation and percussion was developing very rapidly, and this circumstance led him to adopt diseases of the lungs and heart as his specialty.

Shortly after this Loomis's health broke down completely, and he spent six months in the Adirondacks.

The benefit derived from his residence there led to the establishment, years later, of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac, and also, at Liberty, Sullivan County, New York, of a Hospital for Consumptives.

Loomis was appointed visiting physician to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1874.

He published Lessons in Physical Diagnosis (1868; 11th edition, revised and enlarged, 1899); Lectures on Fevers (1877); A Text-Book of Practical Medicine (1884).