Walter Channing

Walter Channing

Draper, William F.

Channing, Walter, 1786-1876

Portraits

Dr. Walter Channing, Harvard's first professor of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence, was also Dean of the Medical School for over a quarter of a century. He promoted the use of ether anaesthesia in childbirth and was one of the founders and attending physicians at the Boston Lying-In Hospital.

Dr. Channing was a Librarian and one of the last Trustees of the Boston Medical Library.

Portrait of Walter Channing (1786-1876), painted by William F. Draper after Joseph Alexander Ames

Draper, William F.

1947

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Portrait Collection. Box 23, folder 22.

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Gift of Walter Channing to Harvard University for the Medical School, 1947