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)ta was professor of mental diseases of 

 Tufts College Medical School, *ind from 

 that college received the degree of LL.D. 

 Clark University made him Honorary 

 Scholar and Honorary Fellow. 



Ho was a founder and the first presl- 

 detn of the Boston Socioty for Psychi- 

 atry and Neurology, and had served as 

 president of the Norfolk District Medical 

 Society, as vice president' of the Boston 

 Medical Library Association and on the 

 Council of the American Neurological 

 Association. He was a. member also of 

 the corporation of the Massachusetts 

 Sohool for Feeble-Mind si. an honorary 

 member of the Association of Institu- 

 tions for the Fecble-Mlnded, a member 

 of the American Medical Association, 

 Massachusetts Medical Socioty, American 

 Medico-Psychological Association, New 

 England Society of Psychiatry, Boston 

 Medical Improvement Society, American 

 Association of Physical Kduactlon, Mas- 

 sachusetts Prison Association and the 

 .National Conference of Charities. 



.Dr. Channing's study of mental and 

 nervous cases led him to believe that 

 riany people could have been entirely 

 cured by proper treatment in the early 

 stages, yet who were allowed to becomb 

 incurably insane. To bettor this state 

 of affairs. Dr. Channing first became a 

 of under, and from 1890 to 3 904) chief of 

 the department for menial diseases of 

 tne Boston Dispensary, lie then engaged 

 in an active campaign for the establish- 

 ment by the Commonwealth of an Insti- 

 tution to which persons showing signs 

 of mental disorder could be sent for ob- 

 servation and temporary treatment. The 

 efforts of Dr. Channing and others who 

 worked with him at last wer successful, 

 and the State Psychopathic Hospital in 

 Boston became a reality, in 1912, and the 

 results achieved were most gratifying to 

 him and those who cooperated with him. 



