When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Biography
Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 to Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude Hamilton (née Pond) in New York City New York and raised in Fort Wayne Indiana. National Women's Hall of Fame.

She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body.