HALL, William Whitty, physician, born in Paris, Kentucky, in 1810; died in New York city, 10 May, 1876. He was graduated at Centre college in 1830, and received his medical degree from Transylvania in 1836. For fifteen years he practised medicine in the south, after which he removed to New York and published "Hall's Journal of Health" (1854), which had a large circulation. He was the author of a "Treatise on Cholera" (New York, 1852); "Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases" (1852; new ed., 1870); "Consumption" (1857); "Health and Disease" (1860; 5th ed., enlarged, 1864); "Sleep" (4th ed., 1864; new ed., 1870); "Coughs and Colds" (1870); "Guide Board to Health" (Springfield, Massachusetts, 1870); "Health by Good Living" (New York, 1870)" and "Fun Better than Physic, or Everybody's Life Preserver" (Springfield, 1871).