Lewis Webb Hill

Lewis Webb Hill was an American physician and medical author born in 1889 and deceased in 1968. His books include Practical Infant Feeding and, with Rena S. Eckman, The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes, a work tied to practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. The surviving catalog records and medical references point to a career grounded in pediatrics and child nutrition.

Beyond medicine, Hill is also remembered in auction and collecting records as a Boston-area sportsman and accomplished decoy carver. Those sources describe him as a physician whose time spent hunting around Cape Cod shaped a notable body of carved bird forms that later became collectible in their own right.

That mix of careful clinical work and hands-on outdoor craftsmanship makes him an unusual figure: a doctor who wrote practical guides for families and professionals, while also leaving behind a very different kind of legacy in American sporting art.