Isaac Walker Hall
British pathologist and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isaac Walker Hall (1868 – 9 October 1953) was a British pathologist and writer.
Isaac Walker Hall | |
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Born | 1868 |
Died | 9 October 1953(1953-10-09) (aged 84–85) |
Occupation(s) | Pathologist, writer |
Walker Hall was educated at Owens College, Manchester.[1] He obtained his M.B. with honours at Victoria University in 1899 and his M.D. in 1902.[2] He studied pathology in Leipzig, Stockholm and Wiesbaden. In 1900, he was appointed senior demonstrator of physiology and lecturer in pathology at Victoria University.[1]
In 1905, he co-authored Methods of Morbid Histology and Clinical Pathology, with Gotthold Herxheimer.[3] Hall was appointed first honorary pathologist and bacteriologist to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and first professor of pathology at University College, Bristol in 1906.[1]
Walker Hall authored important papers on typhoid fever in 1908 and contributed literature on the bacteriology of public health.[1] He was a member of the British Medical Association for fifty-five years and was vice-president for its Section of Pathology at the Annual Meeting at Belfast in 1909 and at Liverpool in 1912. He was an honorary member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists.[1]
His The Purin Bodies Of Food Stuffs was positively reviewed in The British Medical Journal.[4]