Tripti Joshi (Editor)

Worthington Hooker

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Worthington Hooker

Lowest grade
  
Kindergarten

Founded
  
1900


Phone
  
+1 203-691-3700

Highest grade
  
Eighth grade

Worthington Hooker activeraincomimagestoreuploads44908ar131

Role
  
School in New Haven, Connecticut

Address
  
180 Canner St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States

Similar
  
Amistad Academy Middle School, Fair Haven School, Wilbur Cross High School, Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, The Sound School

District
  
New Haven School District

Worthington hooker school 2014 winter concert


Worthington Hooker (March 3, 1806 – November 6, 1867) was an American physician, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Worthington Hooker School in New Haven, Connecticut is named after him.

Contents

He graduated Yale University in 1825 and Harvard University with a degree in Medicine in 1829. He practiced in Connecticut until 1852. Afterwards, he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Yale. He was vice president of the American Medical Association in 1864. His principal works are:

  • Physician and Patient (1849)
  • Homeopathy: An Examination of the Doctrines and Evidences (1852)
  • Human physiology (1854)
  • Rational Therapeutics (1857)
  • Child's Book of Nature 3 volumes (1875)
  • Hooker's book Physician and Patient has been described as the most original United States contribution to medical ethics in the 19th century.

    Konjo at worthington hooker elementary school


    References

    Worthington Hooker Wikipedia