author
Wm. H. (William Henry Hope) Fitzgerald
b. 1872
Best remembered for helping introduce zone therapy to a wide audience, this early 20th-century physician wrote practical health books meant for ordinary readers as well as medical professionals. His work sits at an interesting crossroads between mainstream medicine of his era and the later rise of reflexology.
1 Audiobook
Zone therapy; or, Relieving pain at home
by Wm. H. (William Henry Hope) Fitzgerald, Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick) Bowers
About the author
William Henry Hope Fitzgerald, usually published as Wm. H. Fitzgerald, M.D., was an American physician born in 1872. The bibliographic record for Zone Therapy; or, Relieving Pain at Home identifies him by that full name and birth year, and the book itself presents him as a medical doctor.
In the introduction to Zone Therapy; or, Relieving Pain at Home (1917), Fitzgerald is described as a graduate of the University of Vermont who spent two and a half years at Boston City Hospital. That same contemporary source also says he served two years at the Central London Nose and Throat Hospital and worked in Vienna with prominent specialists, suggesting a career rooted in ear, nose, and throat medicine.
Fitzgerald is chiefly associated with zone therapy, the pain-relief system he promoted in collaboration with Edwin F. Bowers. Their 1917 book helped popularize the idea for general readers, and later editions such as Zone therapy, or, Relieving pain and disease show that the subject remained central to his writing. Because reliable portrait sources were not clearly available from the pages I could confirm, no verified author image is included here.