GUTMAN, ALEXANDER B.

GUTMAN, ALEXANDER B. (1902–1973), U.S. physician. Born in New York City, he was educated in the U.S. and Austria. From 1951 he served as director of the department of medicine and physician in chief of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. On his retirement in 1968 he was appointed professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Gutman was editor in chief of the American Journal of Medicine which he founded in 1946. He was also associate editor of the classic Cecil-Loeb Textbook of Medicine (1950–60). He served on many advisory boards and professional societies. Gutman introduced the acid phosphatase test for prostatic cancer. He became one of the world's authorities on gout and his research into its cause and treatment resulted in new insights into this disease and brought him many honors, prizes, and awards. He made major contributions toward the understanding of the pathophysiology of purine metabolism. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1 (1960), 190. (Fred Rosner)