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Albion Walter Hewlett
1874–1925
A pioneering physician-writer of the early 20th century, he helped bring scientific thinking more directly into bedside medicine. His books on internal disease and pathology reflect a moment when modern clinical medicine was taking shape.
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Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments
by Albion Walter Hewlett, William August Puckner, Torald Hermann Sollmann, Martin I. (Martin Inventius) Wilbert
About the author
Born in 1874, Albion Walter Hewlett was an American physician, medical teacher, and author whose career linked research, teaching, and patient care. He taught at the University of Michigan and later led Stanford's Department of Medicine, where he served from 1916 until his death in 1925.
Hewlett was remembered at Stanford as a doctor of unusual compassion and skill, and as a clinical investigator who helped connect laboratory science with everyday medical practice. Later Stanford accounts also credit him with important work on cardiac arrhythmias and with advancing a more scientific approach to internal medicine.
As an author, he wrote and contributed to substantial medical works including Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases, Pathological Physiology of Internal Diseases, and Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. Those titles make clear the kind of writer he was: practical, scholarly, and deeply engaged with how disease works inside the body.