page_title: John Collins Warren
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: John Collins Warren / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Daguerreotype of Boston surgeon John Collins Warren, circa 1855. Image courtesy of the Harvard University Library.
context_page_description: John Collins Warren, 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.
context_section_description: Warren died from pericarditis on May 4, 1856 at his home at Park 2 street in Boston. It was believed for over 100 years that his remains laid in his memorial tomb at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, MA but in fact his remains are divided; his skeleton is in a coffin-like box at Harvard’s Warren Museum, since he donated his body to Harvard Medical School for research, and his so-called "morbid parts" only were interred in the tomb.
caption: Daguerreotype of John Collins Warren, c. 1855, attributed to Josiah Johnson Hawes
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