Isaac Walker Hall

Isaac Walker Hall (1868 – 9 October 1953) was a British pathologist and writer.

Walker Hall was educated at Owens College, Manchester. He obtained his M.B. with honours at Victoria University in 1899 and his M.D. in 1902. He studied pathology in Leipzig, Stockholm and Wiesbaden. In 1900, he was appointed senior demonstrator of physiology and lecturer in pathology at Victoria University. Hall was appointed first honorary pathologist and bacteriologist to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and first professor of pathology at University College, Bristol in 1906.

He retired in 1936 and moved to Godalming with his wife.

Selected publications

The Clinical Estimation Of Urinary Purins By Means Of The Purinometer (1902) The Purin Bodies of Food Stuffs and the Role of Uric Acid in Health and Disease (1904) Methods of Morbid Histology and Clinical Pathology (with Gotthold Herxheimer, 1905) Clinical Estimations of Purin Bodies in Gouty Urines, Etc (1906)