Robert Ware died of pneumonia at Washington, North Carolina, on April 10, 1863.

]]> Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux appeared—one of the first and still impressive accounts of the structure and dissection of the human brain. It and the successive volume were written in conjunction with his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim.]]> Organon der rationellen Heilkunde, a fundamental text for the homeopathic movement.]]> to the Harvard Medical School, 1946]]> to the Harvard Dental School, 1894
]]> ]]> One of the most renowned American surgeons of the 19th century, Dr. John Collins Warren (born on August 1, 1778) graduated from Harvard College in 1797, then began the study of medicine with his father, Dr. John Warren. In 1799, he went abroad, continuing his medical studies in London and Paris, working with such luminaries as the pioneer anatomist Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841). He received an honorary medical degree from Harvard in 1819.

On his return to America in 1802, Dr. John Collins Warren entered into partnership with his father and also began to assist him with anatomical lectures, dissections, and demonstrations at Harvard Medical School. He was named Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in 1809, then, at his father's death, assumed the Hersey Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery. He held that post until he was granted professor emeritus status in 1847. Dr. Warren was also the first dean of the Medical School and promoted its removal from Cambridge to Boston to obtain better access to clinical facilities. Over the course of his long career, he assembled an extraordinary teaching collection of anatomical and pathological specimens. He presented it to the Harvard Corporation in 1847 along with $5000. This was the beginning of the Warren Anatomical Museum.

]]> Surgeon and educator John Warren was born on July 27, 1753, the son of a Roxbury farmer. He attended Harvard College, graduating in 1771. After studying medicine with his older brother, Joseph Warren (1741-1775), he removed to Salem to work alongside Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke.

Dr. John Warren was put in charge of a series of military hospitals during the Revolutionary War. After the end of the conflict, he opened his medical practice in Boston, specializing in anatomy and surgery, and held the presidency of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. Warren performed one of the first abdominal operations in this country and was known for his amputations of the shoulder joint. He also was a trustee of the Massachusetts Charitable Society and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Humane Society.

In 1780, Dr. Warren delivered a private course of anatomical lectures on human dissection to colleagues. A second series, sponsored by the Boston Medical Society during the autumn and winter of 1781, drew some Harvard College students, as did a third. As a result, the president of Harvard asked Dr. Warren to organize a plan of medical study. He did so and, on November 22, 1782, Dr. John Warren was appointed to the professorship of anatomy and surgery—the first faculty member of the new medical institution. Benjamin Waterhouse and Aaron Dexter were soon added to the faculty, and the first lectures in the Harvard Medical School were delivered in 1783. In 1810, the school removed from Cambridge to Marlborough Street in Boston, and its students were able to use hospital facilities for clinical study.

Although his son, Dr. John Collins Warren (1778-1856) joined him in medical practice in 1802 and, seven years later, was appointed Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Harvard, Dr. John Warren found the dual labors of teaching and medical practice heavy. His health began to fail, and he died of an inflammation of the lungs leading to heart failure on April 14, 1815.

]]> One of the most renowned American surgeons of the 19th century, Dr. John Collins Warren (born on August 1, 1778) graduated from Harvard College in 1797, then began the study of medicine with his father, Dr. John Warren. In 1799, he went abroad, continuing his medical studies in London and Paris, working with such luminaries as the pioneer anatomist Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841). He received an honorary medical degree from Harvard in 1819.

]]> ]]> The third generation of the Warrens associated with Harvard Medical School was represented by Jonathan Mason Warren. Born on February 5, 1811, the fourth child and third son of Dr. John Collins Warren, J. Mason Warren entered Harvard College in 1827, and received his medical degree in 1832. Like his father, he continued his studies of surgery with some of the most eminent men in Europe, returning to practice in Boston in 1835. Of the five Warrens attached to Harvard Medical School, however, J. Mason Warren was the only one never to hold a position on the faculty.

In 1846, Dr. J. Mason Warren was appointed visiting surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was one of the earliest Americans to specialize in plastic and reconstructive surgery, performing the first operations for rhinoplasty in the United States, developing a procedure for closure of the cleft palate, and providing one of the earliest accounts of a successful skin graft. Dr. Warren first met William T. G. Morton in the autumn of 1846 and introduced him to his father, Dr. John Collins Warren. J. Mason Warren used ether anesthesia administered by Morton in his private practice as early as November 1846 and is believed to have anesthestized the first child, a 12-year-old, for a surgical procedure in December of that year.

Jonathan Mason Warren died on August 19, 1867.

]]> The great-great-grandson and namesake of John Warren, born September 6, 1874, continued the family practice of studying medicine at Harvard, taking his degree in 1900. He did not practice medicine and broke with the long tradition of surgery, however, by devoting himself to the study and teaching of anatomy. He considered himself a teacher first and foremost. At the completion of his studies, Dr. John Warren was appointed assistant in Harvard's Anatomy Department, and then became a Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1901, Assistant Professor, 1908-1915, and then Associate Professor of Anatomy in 1915.

Seeing a need for a dissecting manual for Harvard students, John Warren co-authored An Outline of Practical Anatomy with Alexander S. Begg in 1924. His other major work, Warren's Handbook of Anatomy, a one-volume anatomical atlas, was completed only after his death and published by the Harvard University Press in 1930. Editions of both can be found in the Warren Library collection.

Dr. John Warren died suddenly and unexpectedly on July 17, 1928, of a coronary occlusion following tendon surgery.

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John Gorham held the office of Treasurer of the Boston Medical Library and was one of its Trustees.

]]> In addition to being a Trustee, Dr. Hayward held the offices of Clerk and Treasurer of the Boston Medical Library and was its last Librarian.

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]]> Pharmacopoeia of the United States in 1820. He was also the founder of the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

Jacob Bigelow was a Trustee of the Boston Medical Library.]]> Enoch Hale was a Trustee of the Boston Medical Library and also its Clerk and last Treasurer. He looked after the Library's financial interests following its consolidation with the Boston Athenaeum.]]> The Principles and Practice of Medicine]]>