Wm. H. (William Henry Hope) Fitzgerald

William Henry Hope Fitzgerald was an American physician born in 1872. He is chiefly associated with the early development of zone therapy, a method he presented as a way to ease pain and other complaints by applying pressure to specific parts of the body.

His best-known book, Zone Therapy; or, Relieving Pain at Home (1917), was written with Edwin F. Bowers. In that work and related editions, he was presented as the discoverer of zone therapy, and the book helped carry his ideas to a broad popular audience beyond medical circles.

Reliable biographical detail about his personal life is limited in the sources I could confirm here. The available records do show him as a medical doctor and a graduate of the University of Vermont who spent time at Boston City Hospital, but I could not confidently verify a suitable portrait image from the sources I searched.