Memoir of John Collins Warren, M.D.

Date:
[1865?]
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Credit: Memoir of John Collins Warren, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Foreign Medical Review/' then under the editorial charge of Dr., now Sir John Forbes, contains the following remarks, which are alike commendatory of the work and complimentary to the author:— Clear, simple, and graphic, they bear the unaffected impress of truth ; and re- port, with manifest candor and honesty, as medical writings ought, the opinions that influenced the treatment, and the motives that guided the surgeon in performing or abstaining from operations. In fact, throughout the work, the author proves himself to be a worthy disci- ple of the school in which he received his early instructions ; and which, connected as it is with the names and celebrity of Cooper, Bright, and others of hardly less eminence, he seems proud to ac- knowledge as his alma mater. And surely that school need be no less proud to claim him as a pupil. And we believe there are few mem- bers of our profession who arc more entitled to the consideration of his brethren than Dr. Warren. Distinguished as a zealous and suc- cessful teacher for the last thirty years, foremost in every undertak- ing calculated to improve medical literature and science, and never weary in the cause of benevolence, he has earned for himself in his native country a reputation of the most enviable kind, and to which mere literary distinction, more especially in foreign countries, can add but little of value. On the 12th of June, of this year, he sailed for Europe from New York, in company with about thirty passengers ; among them Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, now Emperor of the French. This journey was undertaken mainly for relaxation and for the gratification of his family, ral members of which accompanied him ; but he also labored to i in prove every opportunity of procuring such information as could be made available on his return home. Of this tour, which was extend- ed somewhat beyond a year, he has left a journal, of which extracts are published in the Autobiography. On his return from Europe, immediately upon his landing in New York, Dr. Warren was solicited to accept the office of professor of anatomy in the University of New York. Many important induce- ments were offered, but the same reasons which early in life had led him to decline a similar position in Philadelphia were now equally de- cisive against this new proposal to leave Boston. At this time Dr. Warren commenced a domestic journal, which he continued, with but a few months interruption, throughout the remain- der of his life. Soon after this he seems to have conceived the idea of collecting materials for a biography; he accordingly commenced two collections of memoirs, which he entitled Biographical Notes and Surgical Notes, the former devoted, to reminiscences of the 2