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 M
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 1896
William T. G. Morton
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William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. He is credited with gaining the medical world’s acceptanc
John Collins Warren (surgeon, born 1778)
…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…
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Painting by Robert C. Hinckley, "The First Operation Under Ether" depicting the public demonstration of October 16, 1846.
Panel from monument in Boston commemorating Morton's demonstration of the anesthetic use of ether.