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.
Dr. Warren's article "Remarks on Angina Pectoris" on the first volume of New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery in January 1812
Re-enactment of the October 16, 1846 ether operation; daguerrotype 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 1896
The New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It has been described as being among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals as well as being the oldest continuously published one.
January 1814 edition of the Journal
1823 Boston Medical Intelligencer
1828 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
February 23, 1928, cover of The New England Journal of Medicine. First use of present name.
