John Collins Warren, American Surgeon
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
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John Collins Warren, American Surgeon
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photograph - Photograph
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Dr. John Collins Warren. Daguerreotype. John Collins Warren (1778-1856) was an American surgeon. 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. 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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