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 (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]
Selected publications
edit- The Clinical Estimation Of Urinary Purins By Means Of The Purinometer (1902)
- The Purin Bodies of Food Stuffs and the Role of Uric Acid in Health and Disease (1904)
- Methods of Morbid Histology and Clinical Pathology (with Gotthold Herxheimer, 1905)
- Clinical Estimations of Purin Bodies in Gouty Urines, Etc (1906)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f "I. Walker Hall, M.D." The British Medical Journal. 2 (4843): 996–997. 1953. PMC 2029940. PMID 13094096.
- ^ Hewer, T. F. (1954). "Isaac Walker Hall. 16th September 1868–9th October 1953". The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. 67 (2): 619–620. doi:10.1002/path.1700670239.
- ^ Webster, H. G. (1906). "Methods of Morbid Histology and Clinical Pathology". Annals of Surgery. 43 (3): 483. doi:10.1097/00000658-190603000-00026. PMC 1426168.
- ^ "Reviewed Work: The Purin Bodies Of Food Stuffs And The Róle Of Uric Acid In Health And Disease by I. Walker Hall". The British Medical Journal. 2 (2273): 184.