Augustus Adolph Eshner

17 November 1862 – 20 December 1949

**Augustus Adolph Eshner.** Physician, Professor, since 1895, of Clinical Medicine in Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine. Born November 17, 1862, Memphis, Tenn. Son of James Eshner and Johanna Pleschner. Educated in Philadelphia public schools. A. B., 1879; A.M., 1884, Central High School; M. D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Physician to Philadelphia Hospital, since 1896; assistant physician to Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, since 1900; chairman directors Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1904. Resident physicia