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current medical journals and was the author of
the following books: Ready-Reference Handbook
of Diseases of the Skin (1892, 7th ed., 1914);
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Hair
and Scalp (1887, 2nd ed., 1894) ; A Treatise on
Diseases of the Hair (1912), with Charles W.
McMurtry. Jackson was industrious and pains-
taking and the books which he wrote were ad-
mirable text-books and brought him a well-de-
served reputation as an author, while as profes-
sor of dermatology at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons he acquired an enviable reputa-
tion as a teacher. He stood high in his profes-
sion and commanded the respect of all his col-
leagues. His rather sudden death was a dis-
tinct loss to dermatology. He was married, Oct.
3, 1878, to Caroline Gerlach Weidemeyer, and
had four sons.

[Historian's record of the New York Dermatological
Society; "Golden Anniversary of the Am. Dermato-
logical Asso." Archives of Dermatology and Syphi-
lology, Oct. 1926; Jour, of Cutaneous Diseases, Mar.
1916; John Shrady, The Coll. of Physicians and Sur-
geons, vol. I (n.d.) ; Who's Who in America, 1916-17;
N. Y. Times, Jan. 4, 1916.] Q. H.F—<x.

JACKSON, HALL (Nov. n, 1739-Sept 28,
1797), physician, surgeon, was born in the old
Leavitt homestead in Hampton, N. H., a son of
Dr. Clement and Sarah (Leavitt) Jackson of
Portsmouth, N. H. He was a great-grandson of
John Jackson, yeoman, who in November 1679
came to New England from Dartmouth in the
Hannah & Elisabeth, with his wife and children
(New England Historical and Genealogical Reg-
ister, October 1874, P- 376). After living a short
time in Cambridge, Mass., he removed to Ports-
mouth, N. H., where his son Clement became a
prominent shipping captain and merchant and
the father of several children, among them Dr.
Clement, the father of Hall Jackson. The lat-
ter commenced the study of medicine in the of-
fice of his father in Portsmouth, which experi-
ence he enriched by attending for three years
lectures in the public hospitals of London, where
he came to enjoy not only the friendship of sev-
eral well-known surgeons of that time but also
the acquaintance of David Garrick, the actor,
and the scientists Erasmus Darwin and William
Withering. While in London he became inter-
ested in performing the operation known as
cataract-couching and also received honorable
mention from the faculty for an ingenious in-
vention by which a ball was extracted from a
gunshot wound which had baffled the attending
surgeons. He is not credited with introducing
the operation of cataract-couching into Ameri-
ca but he is known to have been one of the earli-
est surgeons to perform it here. After his stay
in London, where he specialized in the study of

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smallpox, he returned to Portsmouth and estab-
lished himself as a physician and surgeon. From
this period forward, his progress was marked. In
1764 he was summoned to Boston to perform the
duties of inoculation, the town being in the
throes of a smallpox epidemic. Returning to
Portsmouth, he, with three others, opened a
smallpox hospital on Henzell's Island. About
this time or a little later he also established a
hospital on Cat Island in Marblehead harbor.
Five days after the battle of Concord and Lex-
ington, he offered his services in the raising of
a company of minute-men. On June 19,1775, he
was summoned to Boston to attend soldiers who
had been wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill.
He remained in the vicinity of Boston and Cam-
bridge throughout that summer and, during the
autumn, under orders from General Sullivan, re-
cruited a company of artillery. In the same au-
tumn he was appointed surgeon of a regiment
commanded by Pierce Long which was among
those engaged in the capture of Fort Ticonder-
oga under Gen. Ethan Allen. During this ab-
sence from his practice he had occasion to la-
ment that "Doctors Cutter, Brackett & Little
[are] running away with all my business at
Portsmouth" (Letters of Josiah Bartlett, Wil-
liam Whipple and Others, 1889, P- 29) • On Nov.
*4» 1775* the Provincial Congress of New Hamp-
shire voted its thanks to Dr. Jackson and author-
ized his commission as chief surgeon of the New
Hampshire troops in the Continental Army, with
the rank of colonel. This position he held dur-
ing the duration of the war. He was among
the first to introduce foxglove (digitalis) into
the New World (F. R. Packard, History of
Medicine in the United States, 1931, II, 964),
raising it from seeds given him by his friend,
Dr. Withering. He was an honorary member of
the Massachusetts Medical Society, a charter
member of the New Hampshire Medical Soci-
ety, and a prominent Mason, being, in 1790,
grand master of the Grand Lodge of New
Hampshire. He sat for John Singleton Copley
and the painting portrays him in a long, brown
periwig. On Dec. i, 1765, he was married to
Mrs, Molly (Bailing) Wentworth, daughter of
Capt. Samuel Dalling of Portsmouth and wid-
ow of Lieut. Daniel Wentworth, R.N. They had
one son and one daughter.

1C. W. Brewster, Rambles about Portsmouth, 2 ser.
(1869); J. H. Tatsch, Freemasonry in the Thirteen
Colonies (1929) ; R. L. Jackson, in Granite Monthly,
Nov.-Dec. 1914, and in Americana, Jan. 1919, with re-
production of the Copley portrait; vital records of
Hampton, N. H.; obituary m The Oracle of the Day
(Portsmouth, N. H.), Sept. 30, 1797-1 R,LJ.

JACKSON, HELEN MARIA FISKE
HUNT (Oct IS, i830-Aug. 12, 1885), poet,

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