Channing, Walter

American physician

Oct 10, 2023 - 17:46
 0  10

Walter Channing, (born April 15, 1786, Newport, R.I.—died July 27, 1876, Brookline, Mass. U.S.), U.S. physician and one of the founders of the Boston Lying-In Hospital (1832), brother of the clergyman William Ellery Channing; he was the first (1847) to use ether as an anesthetic in obstetrics and the first professor of obstetrics at Harvard University (1815).

A graduate in medicine (1809) of the University of Pennsylvania, Channing studied in Europe, returning in 1812 to an obstetrical practice. He was a coeditor of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and wrote the classic Treatise on Etherization in Childbirth (1848).

What's Your Reaction?

like

dislike

love

funny

angry

sad

wow

admin https://www.piguhua.com