Woods Hutchinson

Woods Hutchinson (1862–1930) was an English-born American physician and popular writer on medicine. Born in Selby, Yorkshire, he emigrated with his family to Iowa, took his medical degree at the University of Michigan and taught comparative pathology at the University of Buffalo and in London before serving as state health officer of Oregon and as clinical professor of medicine at the New York Polyclinic. From about 1905 he gave himself to lecturing and journalism, writing regularly for the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines; his books include Instinct and Health, Preventable Diseases, The Conquest of Consumption and Civilization and Health.