James Jackson (physician)

He graduated from Harvard in 1796, and, after teaching for a year in Leicester Academy, was employed until December 1797 as a clerk for his father, who was then an officer of the government.

In 1803 he became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and in 1810 he proposed with John Collins Warren the establishment of a hospital and an asylum for the insane.

Somerville Asylum was soon founded, and afterward the Massachusetts General Hospital was begun in Boston,[2] of which he was the first physician until he resigned in 1835.

Among his students was Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who married his brother Charles' daughter Amelia Lee Jackson.

Reports drawn up principally or entirely by him include: He also made numerous other contributions to the New England Medical and Surgical Journal and other periodicals.