Herbert S. Carter

Herbert Swift Carter (September 19, 1869 – October 25, 1927) was an American physician and writer.

Biography

Carter was born in Orange, New Jersey. He was educated at Lawrenceville School and the Dearborn Morgan School in Orange, New Jersey. He obtained his B.A. in 1892 from Princeton University. He studied medicine at Columbia University and graduated M.D. in 1895. He was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and member of the American Medical Association.

Carter died after an operation for a peptic ulcer at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Selected publications

Diet Lists of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York (1913) Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics (with Paul E. Howe and Howard H. Mason, 1921)