Walter Channing (physician)

Walter Channing (April 15, 1786 – July 27, 1876) was an American physician and professor of medicine.

He began to practice in Boston in 1812, and in the same year became lecturer on obstetrics at Harvard.

[4] He became, in 1821, Dr. James Jackson's assistant as physician of the newly established Massachusetts General Hospital, and continued there for nearly twenty years.

[3][6] He was a founder and first President of the Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Prisoners in 1846.

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