American Medical Biographies/Hall, Richard Wilmot

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2781442American Medical Biographies — Hall, Richard Wilmot1920

Hall, Richard Wilmot (1785–1847).

Richard Wilmot Hall was born in Harford County, Maryland, in 1785. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1806, with a thesis on the "Use of Electricity in Medicine."

In 1811 he went to Baltimore and in 1812– 13 was adjunct professor of obstetrics in the College of Medicine of Maryland, becoming professor in the latter year, when the name was changed to the University of Maryland, a position he held until 1847, part of the time being also professor of hygiene; in 1819 and in 1837–38 he was dean of the University.

He translated Larrey's "Memoirs of Military Surgery" . . . . 2 vols.: 415 pp., 3 pl.; 434 pp., 11 pl., Baltimore, 1814.

Dr. Hall died at Baltimore, Sept. 14, 1847.