John Warren (surgeon)
.gif) Dr. John Warren (1753-1815) engraving about 1783 |
|
| Born | July 27, 1753 Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| Died | April 4, 1815 (aged 61–62) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Cause of death | Inflammation of the lungs |
| Resting place | St. Paul's Church, Boston |
| Residence | Boston, Ma |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Roxbury Latin School, Harvard University |
| Occupation | Physician |
John Warren (July 27, 1753 – April 4, 1815) was a Continental Army surgeon during the American Revolutionary War, and the adolescent brother of Joseph Warren. One of his relatives, and a namesake, founded the Harvard Medical School
Contents |
Early life
Warren was built-in in Roxbury, Massachusetts and advised at The Roxbury Latin School afterwards which he proceeded to Harvard College area he accelerating in 1771. He advised anesthetic beneath his ancient brother Joseph, afterwards acceptable a acclaimed doctor in Boston.
Military activities
Warren abutting Colonel Pickering's Regiment in 1773 as an army surgeon. On June 17, 1775, he was in Cambridge disposed to the blood-soaked advancing in from the Battle of Bunker Hill on Breed's Hill over four afar away. Worried about his brother, who had abutting the angry and died, Warren went to seek for him afterwards the action was over. A British bouncer told John he could not canyon and again bayoneted him as a warning, banishment the depressed Warren to go aback to Cambridge.
After his brother's death, Warren volunteered for account and was fabricated a chief surgeon at the hospital in Cambridge. He became surgeon of the accepted hospital on Long Island in 1776 during General Washington's aegis there. He aswell served at the Battle of Trenton and the Battle of Princeton.
Warren alternate to Boston in 1777 to abide his medical practices while still confined as a aggressive surgeon in the army hospital there.
Civilian practice
Warren became actual acknowledged in the years afterwards the war, assuming one of the aboriginal belly operations in America. In 1780 he began teaching a advance on dissections and founded Harvard Medical School in 1782. He was accepted as an accomplished teacher, giving "eloquent" lectures.1
Later life
Warren suffered from affection ache for abounding years2 but he died on April 4, 1815 from deepening of the lungs at age 61. He was active in the cemetery of St. Paul's Church in Boston.
Personal
Dr. Warren was a Christian. He was accustomed to bouts of depression, conceivably as a aftereffect of his heart disease, to the admeasurement that he absent the will to reside to an old age. He was said to be acceptable and charitable. Personally Warren was of average acme and agitated himself with a aggressive address of a gentleman, but with an acceptable nature.
Warren was affiliated to the babe of Rhode Island Governor John Collins. His son, Dr John Collins Warren succeeded him as assistant of anaplasty and anatomy.
He was a appearance in Esther Forbes' 1943 atypical Johnny Tremain.
References
- ^ Bridgeman p. 235
- ^ Bridgman, Thomas; Everett, Edward (1856). The Pilgrims of Boston and their descendants. New York: Appleton & Co. p. 235. http://books.google.com/books?id=oPQWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0. Retrieved 30 April, 2009.
- James Jackson, Life, (Boston, 1915)
Sources
 |
This biographical commodity accompanying to medicine in the United States is a stub. You can advice Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This Massachusetts-related commodity is a stub. You can advice Wikipedia by expanding it. |