Winfield S. Hall
Winfield Scott Hall | |
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| Born | January 5, 1861 |
| Died | October 2, 1942 |
| Occupation | Physiologist, writer |
Winfield Scott Hall (January 5, 1861 - October 2, 1942)[1] was an American physiologist and writer.
Hall was born in Batavia, Illinois.[2] He attended Northwestern University where he obtained his B.S. in 1887, M.D. in 1888 and M.S. in 1889.[2][3] He studied physiology at Leipzig University where he obtained his PhD in 1895.[2][3]
Hall was instructor in Biology at Haverford College (1889-1893) and Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University Medical School (1895-1919).[3] He was a member of the American Physiological Society, Chairman of the American Medical Association in 1905 and President of the American Academy of Medicine from 1902 to 1910.[3][4]
Hall authored works on dietetics, physiology and sex hygiene.[3][5] He was described as a pioneer in the field of sex education.[3] In 1911, it was reported that Hall had visited 51 educational institutions to teach sex education.[6] He married Jeannette Winter in 1888, they had four children.[2]
Hall was a smoker for many years but gave it up, criticized smoking as a drug habit and warned the public about its health dangers.[7][8] Hall was cited by Henry Ford in his anti-smoking book The Case Against the Little White Slaver, published in 1914.[8]
Selected publications
- A Laboratory Guide in Physiology (1897)
- A Textbook of Physiology (1899)
- The Cigarette: Why It is Especially Objectionable (1900)
- What Is A Food? (1900)
- Nutrition and Dietetics (1910)
- The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction (1911)
- Sex Training in the Home (1914)
- Sexual Knowledge (1916)
References
- ↑ White, James Terry. (1944). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 31. New York: James T. White & Company. p. 446
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Builders of Our Nation. Chicago: Men of Nineteen-Thirteen, 1914. p. 228
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Winfield Scott Hall 1861-1942". Quarterly Bulletin of the Northwestern University Medical School. 16 (4): 315. 1942. PMC 3802405.
- ↑ Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. New York: L. R. Hamersly & Company, 1910. pp. 770-771
- ↑ "Reviewed Work: Nutrition And Dietetics by Winfield S. Hall". The British Medical Journal. 2 (2585): 142. 1910.
- ↑ Gustav-Wrathall, John Donald. (1998). Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA. University of Chicago Press. p. 175. ISBN 0-226-90784-8
- ↑ Tate, Cassandra. (1999). Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver". Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-19-511851-0
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ford, Henry. (2003 edition). The Case Against the Little White Slaver. Fredonia Books. pp. 53-54. ISBN 1-4101-0345-5