Winfield Scott Hall (January 5, 1861 – October 2, 1942)White, James Terry. (1944). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 31. New York: James T. White & Company. p. 446 was an American physiologist and writer.
Career
Hall was born in Batavia, Illinois.Builders of Our Nation. Chicago: Men of Nineteen-Thirteen, 1914. p. 228 He attended Northwestern University where he obtained his B.S. in 1887, M.D. in 1888 and M.S. in 1889. He studied physiology at Leipzig University where he obtained his PhD in 1895.
Hall was instructor in biology at Haverford College (1889–1893) and Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University Medical School (1895–1919). 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.Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. New York: L. R. Hamersly & Company, 1910. pp. 770-771
Hall authored works on dietetics, physiology and sex hygiene. He was described as a pioneer in the field of sex education. In 1911, it was reported that Hall had visited 51 educational institutions to teach sex education.Gustav-Wrathall, John Donald. (1998). Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA. University of Chicago Press. p. 175. He married Jeannette Winter in 1888, they had four children.
Anti-smoking
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.Tate, Cassandra. (1999). Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver". Oxford University Press. p. 28. Ford, Henry. (2003 edition). The Case Against the Little White Slaver. Fredonia Books. pp. 53-54. Hall was cited by Henry Ford in his anti-smoking book The Case Against the Little White Slaver, published in 1914.
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)
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