HOOKER, Worthington, physician, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, 3 March, 1806; died in New Haven, Connecticut, 6 November, 1867. He was graduated at Yale in 1825, and received his medical degree at Harvard in 1829. when he settled in Norwich, and practised his profession. From 1852 till his death he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine in Yale. In 1864 he was made vice president of the American medical association, and as a member of committees made several important reports. He is the author of a series of scientific books for the young, and of several professional works, including '" Physician and Patient," (New York, 1849); "Homoeopathy, an Examination of its Doctrines and Evidences" (1852); "Human Physiology for Colleges and Schools" (1854); "Rational Therapeutics" (1857); "The Child's Book of Nature" (1857); and "The Child's Book of Common Things" (1858).