John Collins Warren
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican surgeon (1778-1856)
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. G.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 5
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 1
Doctors from United States 6
About this person
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. 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.
United StatesFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.