Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1762

JONATHAN MASON WARREN (1811-1867) Surgical observations, with cases and operations. Ticknor and Fields 1867 xiv, 630 [1] pp., [6] plates (1 fold., 2 col., (col. front.)), 13 illus. 22.6 cm.

Like his father, John Collins Warren (see No. 1340 ff.), and his grandfather, John Warren (see No. 1117), Jonathan Mason Warren also entered the medical profession and received his medical degree from Harvard. After receiving his degree in 1832, he spent the following two years studying with the great physicians of Europe before returning to Boston to enter practice with his father. In 1846 he was elected one of the visiting surgeons to Massachusetts General Hospital and later that year assisted his father in the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia (see No. 1345). In the present work, Warren discusses his work in plastic surgery, including rhinoplasty and staphylorrhaphy. He was especially expert at repairing clefts of the palate, having observed Diffenbach and Roux while in Europe and being familiar with his father's work (see No. 1341). The book also contains chapters covering the head and neck, chest, genitourinary system, abdomen, arteries and veins, tumors, injuries and diseases of the nerves, and anesthetics. Writing of this book in Surgery, gynecology, and obstetrics, Warren's son, John Collins Warren, commented "This was, literally a last word on the surgery of that period and has today especial interest from an historical point of view for it marks the close of an era in surgery as Lister's antiseptic system was already in the making" (Vol. 44 (June 1927), p. 278).

See Related Record(s): 1340 1117 1345 1341 1762.1

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