author
Lewis Webb Hill
1889–1968
A Boston pediatrician with a wide range of interests, he wrote practical medical books and also coauthored an early work on dietary treatment for diabetes. Outside medicine, he was remembered as a sportsman and decoy carver, which gives his career an unusual and memorable shape.
1 Audiobook
The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes
by Lewis Webb Hill, Rena S. (Rena Sarah) Eckman
About the author
Born in 1889, Lewis Webb Hill trained in medicine at Harvard Medical School, graduating with the class of 1913. Contemporary recollections say he went on to internships at Massachusetts General, the Boston Floating Hospital, and Boston Children's Hospital, and he later worked in pediatrics in Boston.
His books show how broad his medical work was. They include The Allen (Starvation) Treatment of Diabetes with Rena S. Eckman, Clinical Lectures on Infant Feeding with Jesse R. Gerstley, A Manual of Practical Laboratory Diagnosis, and Practical Infant Feeding. He also appeared in pediatric research and later served as a consulting editor on Symposium on Pediatric Allergy.
Hill died on June 30, 1968. Sources about his later life also remember him as a sportsman and skilled carver of waterfowl decoys and bookends, especially associated with Boston and the Cape Cod hunting world. No clearly verifiable portrait image was found during this search, so none is included here.