William Hale-White

William Hale-White

Sir William Hale-White (1857-1949), was a distinguished British physician and medical biographer. He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford. During the First World War he was a colonel in the RAMC and was created KBE in 1919 [ [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Mark_(William_Hale_White_Rutherford) Mark (William Hale White Rutherford) - LoveToKnow 1911 ] ] . He was president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland in 1930 [ [http://www.associationofphysicians.co.uk/meetingsall.html Association of Physicians ] ] and also a president of the Royal Society of Medicine [ [http://www.oldframlinghamian.com/images/articles/SIRWILLIAMHALE-WHITE1870-74.pdf www.oldframlinghamian.com] ] .

His son, Reginald, was born in 1895 and also became a doctor. He was an expert on heroin [ [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1956.tb04243.x THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION BANNING THE LEGAL PRODUCTION OF HEROIN IN GREAT BRITAIN, 1956] ] .

Books

*"Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century", 1935
*"Keats as Doctor and Patient", 1938
*"Materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics" (assisted by Arthur Henry Douthwaite), London, Churchill, 1949, 1959, 1963.

References

External links

* [http://www.oldframlinghamian.com/images/articles/SIRWILLIAMHALE-WHITE1870-74.pdf Biography]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01971&desc=&eDate=&grp=&lDate=&medium=drawing&name=&occ=29%3BMedicine&search=as Sketch] by Sir William Rothenstein


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