{{short description|American physiologist and writer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Winfield Scott Hall | image = Winfield S. Hall.png | birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|01|05}} | birth_place = Batavia, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|10|02|1861|01|05}} | death_place = Berwyn, Illinois, U.S. | occupation = Physiologist, writer | signature = Signature of Winfield Scott Hall (1861–1942).png }}
'''Winfield Scott Hall''' (January 5, 1861 – October 2, 1942)<ref>White, James Terry. (1944). ''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 31''. New York: James T. White & Company. p. 446</ref> was an American physiologist and writer.
==Career==
Hall was born in Batavia, Illinois.<ref name="Builders">[https://archive.org/details/buildersournati01unkngoog/page/n210/mode/2up ''Builders of Our Nation'']. Chicago: Men of Nineteen-Thirteen, 1914. p. 228</ref> He attended Northwestern University where he obtained his B.S. in 1887, M.D. in 1888 and M.S. in 1889.<ref name="Builders"/><ref name="Bulletin">{{cite journal|year=1942|title=Winfield Scott Hall 1861-1942|journal=Quarterly Bulletin of the Northwestern University Medical School|volume=16|issue=4|pages=315|pmc=3802405}}</ref> He studied physiology at Leipzig University where he obtained his PhD in 1895.<ref name="Builders"/><ref name="Bulletin"/>
Hall was instructor in biology at Haverford College (1889–1893) and Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University Medical School (1895–1919).<ref name="Bulletin"/> 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.<ref name="Bulletin"/><ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t6445rz51&view=1up&seq=812 ''Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries'']. New York: L. R. Hamersly & Company, 1910. pp. 770-771</ref>
Hall authored works on dietetics, physiology and sex hygiene.<ref name="Bulletin"/><ref>{{cite journal|year=1910|title=Reviewed Work: Nutrition And Dietetics by Winfield S. Hall|journal=The British Medical Journal|volume=2|issue=2585|pages=142}}</ref> He was described as a pioneer in the field of sex education.<ref name="Bulletin"/> In 1911, it was reported that Hall had visited 51 educational institutions to teach sex education.<ref>Gustav-Wrathall, John Donald. (1998). ''Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA''. University of Chicago Press. p. 175. {{ISBN|0-226-90784-8}}</ref> He married Jeannette Winter in 1888, they had four children.<ref name="Builders"/>
==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.<ref>Tate, Cassandra. (1999). ''Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver"''. Oxford University Press. p. 28. {{ISBN|0-19-511851-0}}</ref><ref name="Ford">Ford, Henry. (2003 edition). ''The Case Against the Little White Slaver''. Fredonia Books. pp. 53-54. {{ISBN|1-4101-0345-5}}</ref> Hall was cited by Henry Ford in his anti-smoking book ''The Case Against the Little White Slaver'', published in 1914.<ref name="Ford"/>
==Selected publications== *[https://archive.org/details/laboratoryguidei00hall/page/n4/mode/2up ''A Laboratory Guide in Physiology''] (1897) *[https://archive.org/details/textbookofphysio00hall/page/n6/mode/2up ''A Textbook of Physiology''] (1899) *''The Cigarette: Why It is Especially Objectionable'' (1900) *[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807173/pdf/QBullNorthwestUnivMedSch-1-10-306_50.pdf ''What Is A Food?''] (1900) *[https://archive.org/details/nutritiondieteti00hallrich/page/n6/mode/2up ''Nutrition and Dietetics''] (1910) *[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24708/24708-h/24708-h.htm ''The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction''] (1911) *[https://archive.org/details/sextraininginhom00hall/page/n4/mode/2up ''Sex Training in the Home''] (1914) *[https://archive.org/details/sexualknowledgek00hallrich/page/n12/mode/2up ''Sexual Knowledge''] (1916)
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