Joseph C. (Joseph Chrisman) Hutchison

Joseph C. Hutchison was a 19th-century American physician and medical writer whose full name is commonly given as Joseph Chrisman Hutchison. Library and archival records connect him with popular instructional books on physiology and hygiene, including A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene and The Laws of Health, both written for students and general readers.

A biographical sketch preserved in American Medical Biographies describes him as Missouri-born and notes that he earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania before building his career in medicine. That same sketch also places him in New York, where he became known as a physician, teacher, and author.

Today, Hutchison is remembered mainly through the many editions and reprints of his health manuals. Their continued presence in major library collections suggests that his books were widely used as accessible introductions to the human body, hygiene, and healthy habits.