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About John Collins Warren
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.
Everything about John Collins Warren →- Occupation
- physician, university teacher, surgeon
- Position held
- President of the American Medical Association
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 1, 1778, 1778
- Died
- May 4, 1856