An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

CHANNING, Walter

2 entries
  • 3116

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

New Engl. quart. J. Med. Surg., 1, 157-88, 1842.

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



Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › Anemia & Chlorosis
  • 5661

A treatise on etherization in childbirth.

Boston, MA: W. D. Ticknor & Co., 1848.

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.



Subjects: ANESTHESIA › Ether, ANESTHESIA › Obstetric Anesthesia