{{Short description|American surgeon}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jonathan Mason Warren | image = Jonathan Mason Warren, M.D.png | birth_date = February 5, 1811 | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts | death_date = August 9, 1867 | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | spouse = Anna Casper Crowninshield }}
'''Jonathan Mason Warren''' (February 5, 1811{{snd}}August 19, 1867) was an American surgeon. He specialized in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is known to be the first person to perform rhinoplasty in the United States.
== Biography == He was born to Susan Powell Mason and John Collins Warren on February 5, 1811, in the house located at No. 2 Park Street, Boston.<ref name="AMB" /><ref name=":0">"Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XW1S-TJ3?cc=1463156&wc=MJC1-2NL%3A1043009501 (account registration required): 13 December 2022), 0960191 (004221407) > image 479 of 701; State Archives, Boston.</ref>
He entered the Boston Latin School in 1820 and graduated in 1825. After studying under a private tutor for two years, he entered Harvard College in 1827. But due to his health, he left Harvard after three months. In the spring of 1828, he began his medical studies under the direction of his father. In the fall of 1830 he entered the Harvard Medical School, and received an MD degree in 1832 at the age of 21.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=J. Mason Warren (1811-1867) · Family Practice: The Warrens of Harvard Medical School · OnView |url=https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits/show/family-practice/j--mason-warren--1811-1867- |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=collections.countway.harvard.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Harvard University |url=http://archive.org/details/catalogussenatu00thurgoog |title=Catalogus senatus academici, et eorum, qui munera et officia gesserunt, quique aliaijus gradus laurea donati sunt, in Universitate Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae, in Republica Massachusettensi |publisher=Typis Folsom, Wells, et Thurston |others=University of Michigan |year=1836 |location=Cantabrigiae, Mass.}}</ref>
In March 1832, he left Boston to study in Europe, mostly in Paris. He studied alongside other American students such as Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Oliver Wendel Holmes and Robert William Hooper, who were also seeking medical education in the region.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Warren |first=Jonathan Mason |title=The Parisian education of an American surgeon: letters of Jonathan Mason Warren, 1832-1835 |date= |publisher=American Philosophical Society |year=1978 |isbn=978-0-87169-128-6 |editor-last=Jones |editor-first=Russell M. |series=Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society; v. 128 |location=Philadelphia}}</ref> He visited many notable doctors at the time, including: Astley Cooper, Charles Bell, James Syme and Robert Liston in the United Kingdom, Guillaume Dupuytren, Philibert Joseph Roux, Jacques Lisfranc and Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis in France.<ref name=":2" /> Most notably, he witnessed Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach who was on a visit from Vienna, perform his rhinoplastic operations in 1834.<ref name="AMB" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Warren |first=Jonathan Mason |url=http://archive.org/details/surgicalobservat00warr |title=Surgical observations, with cases and operations |publisher=Ticknor and Fields |others=Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine |year=1867 |location=Boston |pages=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Goldwyn |first=Robert M. |date=January 1968 |title=JONATHAN MASON WARREN AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLASTIC SURGERY: |url=http://journals.lww.com/00006534-196801000-00001 |journal=Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery |language=en |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1097/00006534-196801000-00001 |issn=0032-1052|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
After three years of study, he returned to Boston in June 1835 where he worked in general practice. He specialized in reconstructive surgery; he was one of the first surgeons to perform rhinoplasty operations in the United States, and developed ways to close cleft palate through surgery.<ref name="AMB">{{Cite AMB1920|wstitle=Warren, Jonathan Mason}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=J. Mason Warren · Plastic Surgery in Boston: Then and Now · OnView |url=https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits/show/plastic-surgery-in-boston--the/j--mason-warren |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=collections.countway.harvard.edu}}</ref>
He married Anna Caspar on April 30, 1839. One of their children was John Collins Warren Jr.<ref name="AMB" />
He received an honorary MA degree from Harvard College in 1844.<ref name="AMB" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Harvard University |url=http://archive.org/details/quinquennialcat01univgoog |title=Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates of Harvard university. 1636-1890 |publisher=Published by the university |others=University of Michigan |year=1890 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |pages=223, 329}}</ref>[[File:Ether Dome Daguerreotype No. 5 (cropped).png|thumb| Daguerreotype of an early ether operation, taken by Southworth & Hawes on July 3, 1847. J. Mason (second from bottom left) and his father (second from bottom right) are among the principals portrayed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haridas |first=Rajesh Parsotam |date=2010-07-01 |title=Photographs of Early Ether Anesthesia in Boston |url=https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/113/1/13/10303/Photographs-of-Early-Ether-Anesthesia-in-BostonThe |journal=Anesthesiology |language=en |volume=113 |issue=1 |pages=13–26 |doi=10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181de6f41 |pmid=20526183 |issn=0003-3022}}</ref>]]In February 1846, he was elected one of the visiting surgeons of the Massachusetts General Hospital.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 9, 1846 |title=Massachusetts General Hospital |url=https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9306z6215 |work=Boston Evening Transcript |pages=2}}</ref> After the first public demonstration of ether anesthesia by W. T. G. Morton, he substituted for Morton's apparatus for cone-shaped sponge which was adapted quickly for the purpose of administering ether, especially to children.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Warren |first=Jonathan Mason |url=http://archive.org/details/b33098360 |title=Inhalation of ether |publisher= |year=1847 |location=Boston |pages=3}}</ref>
On May 6, 1853, while returning from a meeting of the American Medical Association in New York, he was a passenger on the train which met with the Norwalk rail accident. He survived as well as his family survived, thanks to his being in the middle section of the car at the request of his wife.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Warren |first=Annie Crowninshield |url=http://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofm00warr |title=Reminiscences of my life : for my children |publisher=Privately printed at the Riverside Press |others=Wellesley College Library |year=1910 |editor-last=Rogers |editor-first=Bruce |location=Boston |pages=59–60}}</ref> However, several other members of the association, including William Cecil Dwight and Abel Lawrence Peirson, who were in the same car as the one Warren was in,<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 5, 1853 |title=Awful railroad accident, fifty persons killed! |url=https://wadleigh.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=farmers%20cabinet&i=f&by=1853&bdd=1850&d=05011853-05311853&m=between&ord=k1&fn=farmers_cabinet_usa_new_hampshire_amherst_18530512_english_2&df=1&dt=7 |work=Farmers Cabinet |pages=2}}</ref> were killed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Joseph M. |date=1853 |title=Minutes of the sixth annual meeting of the American Medical Association |url=https://ama.nmtvault.com/jsp/PsImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=6863b9b4-a8b5-4ea0-9e63-ca2ed554e876%2Fama_arch%2FAD200001%2F00000006 |journal=The Transactions of the American Medical Association |volume=6 |pages=50–51}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1854 |title=An account of the railroad disaster at Norwalk, Conn. with biographical sketches of those gentlemen (members of the Am. Med. Assoc.) who lost their lives on that occasion. |url=https://ama.nmtvault.com/jsp/PsImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=6863b9b4-a8b5-4ea0-9e63-ca2ed554e876%2Fama_arch%2FAD200001%2F00000007 |journal=The Transactions of the American Medical Association |volume=7 |pages=603–623}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=The catastrophe at Norwalk |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045784/1853-05-14/ed-1/seq-1/ |work=Weekly national intelligencer |location=Washington |pages=1 |publication-date=14 May 1853 |via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.}}</ref>
He was a senior surgeon at the hospital for several years until his death. He died on August 9, 1867 in the same house where he was born.<ref name="AMB" /><ref name=":0" /><ref>"Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8975-9CTG?view=explore (account registration required): Jun 11, 2024), image 573 of 723; Boston (Massachusetts). City Registrar.</ref>
==Gallery==
<gallery> File:Warren, Jonathan Mason, 1811-1867., 1844 - cropped.png|Mason in Paris, 1844.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Arnold |first=Howard Payson |url=http://archive.org/details/memoirofjonatha00arno |title=Memoir of Jonathan Mason Warren, M.D |date= |publisher= |others= |year=1886 |location=Boston}}</ref> File:The Warren family home at 2 Park Street, Boston.png|The interior of the house located at 2 Park Street in Boston, the place where he was born and died. Circa 1860. File:Members of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.jpg|Mason (sitting, third from right) with other members of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Shot between 1843{{snd}}1854.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bostonian Society. 1n |url=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofbo188290bost/page/n264/ |title=Proceedings of the Bostonian Society, annual meeting |date=1882–1890 |publisher=Boston [Bostonian Society] |others=Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center}}</ref> File:Dr. J. Mason Warren (cropped).jpg|Mason in later years. Circa 1860. </gallery>
==Selected writings==
* {{Cite journal |last=Warren |first=Jonathan Mason |date=March 8, 1837 |title=Rhinoplastic Operation |url=https://archive.org/details/per_the-boston-medical-and-surgical-journal_the-boston-medical-and-surgical-jou_1837-03-08_16_5 |journal=The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=69–79|doi=10.1056/NEJM183703080160501 }} * {{Cite journal |last=Warren |first=Jonathan Mason |date=April 1843 |title=Operations for Fissure of the Soft and Hard Palate |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-england-quarterly-journal-of-medicine-and-surgery_1843-04_1_4/page/538/ |journal=The New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=538–547}} * {{Cite book |last=Warren |first=Jonathan Mason |url=http://archive.org/details/46010680R.nlm.nih.gov |title=Recent progress in surgery : the annual address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society |date=May 25, 1864 |publisher=Printed by David Clapp |others=U.S. National Library of Medicine |location=Boston}}
==Sources== {{Reflist}} *{{Cite journal |last=Goldwyn |first=Robert M. |date=January 1968 |title=JONATHAN MASON WARREN AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLASTIC SURGERY: |url=http://journals.lww.com/00006534-196801000-00001 |journal=Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery |language=en |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1097/00006534-196801000-00001 |issn=0032-1052|url-access=subscription }}
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