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Physicians born active died
1778, Aug 1 1801-1856 1856, May 4
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.
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John Collins Warren 1778, Aug 1 1801
1856 1856, May 4
George Bass 1771, Jan 30 1789 1803 unknown a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. At the age of 18 he was accepted in London as ... Friedrich Schiller 1759, Nov 10 1781 1804 1805, May 9 a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years... William Batt 1744, Jun 18 1770 1809 1812, Feb 9 an English physician, chemist, and botanist. On completing his studies he returned to England, bu... Andrew Grant unknown 1800 1809 unknown a physician and writer. There is very little information available concerning the details of his ... Benjamin Rush 1745, Dec 24 1769 1812 1813, Apr 19 a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a p... Samuel Bard 1742, Apr 1 1765 1813 1821, May 24 an American physician who founded the first medical school in New York City and the second medica... David Ramsay 1749, Apr 2 1773 1815 1815, May 8 an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one... Benjamin Smith Barton 1766, Feb 10 1789 1815 1815, Dec 19 an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. Barton corresponded with naturalists throughout ... Jesse Bennett 1769, Jul 10 1791 1815 1842, Jul 13 the first American physician to perform a successful Caesarean section, which he performed on his... Nathan Drake 1766, Jan 15 1780 1817 1836 an English essayist and physician. Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786... John Jeffries 1745, Feb 5 1760 1819 1819, Sep 16 a Boston physician, scientist, and a military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and Ne... Benjamin Waterhouse 1754, Mar 4 1782 1821 1846, Oct 2 a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being ... Edward Jenner 1749, May 17 1770 1823 1823, Jan 26 an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vac... Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers 1758, Oct 11 1779 1827 1840, Mar 2 a German physician and astronomer. Olbers discovered and named the asteroid Pallas. Five years l... William Thornton 1759, May 20 1789 1828 1828, Mar 28 a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capi... Robert Montgomery Bird 1806, Feb 5 1827 1847 1854, Jan 23 an American novelist, playwright, and physician. In 1828, Bird's play Pelopidas won a $1000 prize... Horace Wells 1815, Jan 21 1836 1848 1848, Jan 24 an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide ... Charles David Badham 1805, Aug 27 1833 1857 1857, Jul 14 an English writer, physician, entomologist, and mycologist. David Badham seems to have started hi... John Snow 1813, Mar 15 1837 1857 1858, Jun 16 an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is consi... Elisha Kent Kane 1820, Feb 3 1843 1857 1857, Feb 16 an American explorer, and a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of th... Pierre Adolphe Piorry 1794, Dec 31 1816 1859 1879, May 29 a French physician born in Poitiers. He invented pleximetry (a method for the investigation of in... Giuseppe Asclepi 1706 1760 186 1776 an Italian astronomer and physician. He was a Jesuit and director of the observatory at the Colle... William Walker 1824, May 8 1852 1860 1860, Sep 12 an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary, who organized several private military e... Samuel A. Cartwright 1793, Nov 3 1837 1862 1863, May 2 a physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States. Cartwrigh... Lafayette Bunnell 1824, Mar 13 1849 1869 1903, Jul 21 an American physician, author, and explorer. He is most well known for his involvement with the M... Crawford Long 1815, Nov 1 1841 1878 1878, Jun 16 an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an a... Stephen Reed 1801, Sep 26 1824 1879 1877, Jul 12 an American physician, newspaper publisher, and geologist. He graduated from Yale College in 1824... John H. Van Evrie 1814 1842 1879 1896 an American physician and defender of slavery, best known as the editor of the Weekly Day Book an... Robert Tomes 1817, Mar 27 1840 1880 1882 American physician, diplomat and writer. Beginning to write around 1853, Tomes gradually relinqui...
