Worthington Hooker, an American physician, born in Springfield, Mass., March 2, 1806, died in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 6, 1867. He received his academic education at Yale college, and graduated in medicine at Harvard university in 1829. He then settled in Norwich, Conn., where he practised his profession till 1852, when he was appointed professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the medical institution of Yale college, which post he held till his death. In 1864 he was chosen vice president of the American medical association. In 1849 he published a work entitled " Physician and Patient," which gained him a high reputation as a literary and medical scholar. In 1850 appeared his " Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions," the Rhode Island prize fund dissertation for that year. He made several important committee reports to the American medical association, and was the author of a valuable series of books on physiology, natural history, chemistry, etc., for the use of the young.