Background
Williams, Henry Smith was born on March 4, 1863 in Durand, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Jenner and Orrilla N. (Webster) Williams.
Williams, Henry Smith was born on March 4, 1863 in Durand, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Jenner and Orrilla N. (Webster) Williams.
Brother of Edward Huntington W. Bachelor of Arts, State University of Iowa, 1887. Doctor of Medicine Chicago Medical College, 1884.
In universities, hospitals and libraries of Berlin, Paris, London, etc., 1898-1902. Doctor of Laws, Western Reserve, 1903.
Practiced since 1884. Specialist in nervous and mental diseases. Assistant physician and pathologist State Hospital for Insane, Independence, 1887.
Assistant physician Manhattan State Hospital, 1888, Bloomingdale Asylum, 1889. Medical superintendent Randall’s Island Hospital, 1892. Lecturer Hartford School of Sociology, 1891-1892.
Author: Check List of Iowa Birds (with C. L. Keys), 1887 (Davenport Academy Science). The Story of Nineteenth Century Science, 1900. The History of Art of Writing, 1902.
A History of Science (5 vols.), 1904 (with E. H. Williams, M.D.). The Effect of Alcohol, 1909. The Science of Happiness, 1909.
Every Day Science (14 vols.), 1909-1910 (with E. H. Williams, M.D.). The Conquest of Nature, 1911. Mental Obliquities, Science and Civilization, 1912.
The Wonders of Science in Modern Life (10 vols.), 1912. Miracles of Science, 1913. Adding Years to Your Life, 1914.
Luther Burbank—His Life and Work, 1915. The Proteal Treatment of Cancer and Allied Conditions, 1916. Proteal Therapy, 1917.
The Proteomorphic Theory and the New Medicine, 1918. The Witness of the Sun, 1920. The Phantom Auto, 1921.
Practical Radio, 1922. Story of Modern Science, 1923. The Great Astronomers, 1930.
The Literary Digest Book of Marvels, 1931. The Biography of Mother Earth, 1931. Survival of the Fittest, 1932.
Why Die Before Your Time?, 1933. Drugs Against Men, 1935. Wonder Book of World Progress (10 vols.), 1935.
Your Glands and You, 1936. The Dope Ring, 1937; Drug Addicts Are Human Beings, 1938. The Private Lives of Birds, 1939.
Etching Is the Ideal Hobby, 1941. Editor: Historians’ History of the World (25 vols.), 1904. Works of Luther Burbank (12 vols.), 1915.
Specialist in hæmatology. Originator of the Proteomorphie Theory of Immunization, 1914, and one of the originators of nonspecific protein therapy and of the hypodermic use of vegetable proteins, or proteals, in treatment of conditions of disturbed metabolism. In recent years active as painter and etcher.
More than 400 of his pictures are reproduced, many in full color, in mags. and books since 1930. Address: 200 N. Avenue 66, Los Angeles, California.
Married Florence Whitney, November 9, 1889. Married second, Marina M. Gardner, February 12, 1925.