American Medical Biographies/Hall, William Whitty
Hall, William Whitty (1810–1876).
William Whitty Hall, popular medical writer and editor of Hall's Journal of Health, was born in Paris, Kentucky, in 1810. He was a graduate of Centre College in 1830, and M. D. of Transylvania College (1836). After practising medicine for fifteeen years in the South, he moved to New York and in 1854 began publishing his Journal, which reached a wide circulation. He was editor of Hall's Medical Adviser (1875), and wrote much on hygiene and kindred subjects. Among his books are "Treatise on Cholera," New York, 1852; "Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases," 1852; "Consumption," 1857; "Health and Disease," 1860; "Sleep; or, The Hygiene of the Night," 352 pp. 4th Ed., 1864, New Ed. 1870; "Coughs and Colds. . . . ," 362 pp. (1870).
He fell in a fit in the street in New York, May 10, 1876, and died immediately.
A printed notice at the time said: "This seems a bad commentary upon the laws of health as expounded by Dr. Hall, if he practised what he preached. We do not think much of a system of living which will not preserve a man of good physique from breaking down at the age of 66."