High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Channing (born April 15, 1786, Newport, Rhode Island; died July 27, 1876, Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American physician and professor of medicine.Channing entered Harvard in 1804, but left in 1807 on account of the rebellion of that year, and afterward received his degree out of course. After studying medicine in Boston and Philadelphia, he received his diploma from the University of Pennsylvania, and then studied in the University of Edinburgh, receiving a degree there as well. He also studied at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals in London. He began to practise in Boston in 1812, and in the same year became lecturer on obstetrics at Harvard.