John Collins Warren
American surgeon (1778-1856) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 77
John Collins Warren was an American surgeon. He was a founder of The New England Journal of Medicine and was the third president of the American Medical Association. He was the first dean of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Dr. Warren's article "Remarks on Angina Pectoris" in the first volume of The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery in January 1812
Historic image of an early ether operation, 3 July 1847; daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes.
Daguerreotype of John Collins Warren, c. 1855, attributed to Josiah Johnson Hawes
Dr Warren's grandson Dr. Thomas Dwight with a skull 1896Awards
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In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure. News of this first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia quickly circulated around the world.
