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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

CHANNING, Walter (1786 – 1876)

1786 – 1876

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1842 CE

#3116

Notes on anhaemia, principally in its connections with the puerperal state, and with functional disease of the uterus: with cases.

CHANNING, Walter (1786 – 1876)

First description of pernicious anemia of pregnancy. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1848 CE

#5661

A treatise on etherization in childbirth.

CHANNING, Walter (1786 – 1876)

Channing was an early advocate of anesthesia in obstetrics. In his book, and in several earlier papers, he brought the importance of this branch of anesthesia into the foreground.