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[Up] [Dromo's Den] John Warren Biography WARREN, John Collins (1778–1856). An American surgeon, son of John Warren (q.v.), born in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1797, studied medicine with his father and in London and Paris, began practice in Boston in 1802, and at Harvard was assistant professor of anatomy and surgery (1806–15), and professor of surgery, succeeding his father (1815–47). He was one of the founders and long an editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1828). He was also one of the founders of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, and of the Massachusetts General Hospital of which he was long chief surgeon. In 1846 he performed the first public operation on a patient anæsthetized by ether, in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. W. T. G. Morton (q.v.) being the anæsthetist. He was a pioneer in the excision of bones and joints, and introduced an operation for fissure of the soft palate. Warren made a fine collection of specimens in anatomy, osteology, and paleontology, now known as the Warren Museum, to which he bequeathed his own skeleton. In 1849 he served as president of the American Medical Association. Among his works are: Diseases of the Heart (1809); Comparative View of the Sensorial System (1820); Surgical Observations on Tumors (1837); Etherization (1848); and Mastodon Giganteus (1855). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XXIII (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 292-293.
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