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Hooker, Worthington

educator, physician, author, was born March 3, 1803, in Springfield, Mass. He was a physician of Norwich, Conn., who was professor of medicine at Yale university in 1852-67, and the author of Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homeopathy; Human Physiology for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child's Book of Nature; Child's Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Science for the School and Family; and The Medical Profession and the Community. He died Nov. 6, 1867, in New Haven, Conn.