Richard
Wilmot Hall was born in Harford County, Maryland in 1785. He received his MD
from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1806, he came to Baltimore.
Dr.
Hall became an adjunct professor of Obstetrics at the College of Medicine in
Maryland in 1812, and in 1813 a professor of Obstetrics at the University of
Maryland, where he stayed until 1847. During part of this time, he was also a
Professor of Hygiene and Dean at the University of Maryland. Hall was a Surgeon
with the Fifty-First Regiment of the Maryland Militia.
Hall was an Orator
at the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1814.
He
was one of the authors of the two-volume "Memoirs of Military Surgery," translated from Dominique-JeanLarrey's original French. Larrey is credited with the creation of battlefield medicine, including the ambulance service, and was Napoleon's personal physician at Waterloo and other battles. It is reputed that Larrey's original medical chest from Waterloo is in MedChi's museum.
Dr. Hall died in Baltimore
on September 14, 1847.
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