Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1340

JOHN COLLINS WARREN (1778-1856) A comparative view of the sensorial and nervous systems in men and animals. J. W. Ingraham 1822 159 pp., 8 plates (4 fold.). 24.1 cm.

John Collins Warren was the son of John Warren (1753-1815), a prominent Revolutionary War surgeon and one of the founders and early professors of the Harvard Medical School. The younger Warren received most of his medical education abroad, studying under the best teachers of his day. He was an excellent surgeon with a number of innovations and techniques to his credit. He was the first to operate for strangulated hernia, he introduced Hunter's operation for aneurysm, and he performed a number of successful operations for cataract. He is best remembered, however, for his tumor surgery for which he gained an international reputation. Warren's name is also linked with the founding of the American Medical Association and the establishment of the New England journal of medicine and surgery to which he was a frequent contributor. This monograph on the comparative anatomy of the nervous system was read before the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1820 when Warren was professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard. In his Foreword he states that "the want of books containing the previous labors of others is most deeply felt in the consideration of such a subject, on this side of the Atlantic." Several engravings supplement the text.

Cited references: Cushing W51

Gift of John Martin, M.D.