Jackson, Hall, 1739-1797
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Jackson (Harvard, Hon. M.D. 1793) practiced surgery and obstetrics in Portsmouth, N.H., from 1760 to 1775; he then served in the Revolutionary War as a military surgeon, returning to Portsmouth afterwards. He was the first American surgeon to perform operation of couching of cataracts and he also administered innoculations for smallpox.
Physician and army surgeon of New Hampshire.
Surgeon in the Continental Army, wounded at Bunker Hill; pioneer in the treatment of smallpox; of Portsmouth, N.H.
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New Hampshire
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Portsmouth (N.H.)
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