Walter Channing (medical doctor)

Walter Channing (born April 15, 1786 in Newport , Rhode Island , † July 27, 1876 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) was an American obstetrician and forensic scientist at Harvard Medical School . He is best known for using ether as an anesthetic in obstetrics for the first time in 1847 .

Walter Channing, a younger brother of William Ellery Channing (1780-1842), studied at Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania , where he completed his medical degree with an MD in 1809 . He then spent time studying in Edinburgh and London (at Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital ) before opening a practice in Boston in 1811 . In 1812 he was editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery , since Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , from which in turn the New England Journal of Medicine emerged . From 1815 Channing held lectures in obstetrics at Harvard Medical College , in 1818 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and forensic medicine there , and in 1819 he became dean of the medical faculty. From 1821 to 1839 he also worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital , initially as an assistant to James Jackson (1777-1867). In 1832, Channing founded the Boston Lying-In Hospital , which later became the Brigham and Women's Hospital . In 1854 he was retired .

Channing was among the founders of the Boston Natural History Society . In 1818 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Channing was married to Barbara Higginson Perkins († 1822) from 1815, and from 1831 to Eliza Wainwright († 1834).

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SURNAME	Channing, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American obstetrician and forensic scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	Newport , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH	July 27, 1876
Place of death	Brookline , Massachusetts