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 632 WARREN. WARREN. nent man in New Hampshire, and was high sheriff of that state, and grand master of !■'. & A. M. in New England, holding the jewels and archives of the order, when the Morgan excitement against Masonry was so bitter. Mr. Warren began his school life at a private kindergarten, one of the first in this country organized for object-teaching. At the age of twelve he was placed under tile tuition of his sister in Newton. At six- teen lie entered West Lebanon Academy, Maine. In 1X41; he began the study of medicine at the medical school, Castleton, Vt. Sub- sequently he attended lectures at Harvard medical school, lie was graduated from the medical school, Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1^5.5. and subsequently received from Bowdoin the degree of A. M. After a time spent in special study, with Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York, he began JOSEPH H WARREN. practice in 1853 at Newton, having previ- ously joined the Massachusetts Medical Society. Here he practiced three years ; was a member of the school board, and held other offices of trust and honor. His health failed him from over- work, and he removed to Dorchester, where his field of labor was more easily attended, and where he regained his health. At the breaking out of the rebellion, Dr. Warren was among the first to volunteer, and he was in Baltimore with the Massa- chusetts troops when the first volunteers were mobbed in the streets of that citv. He was afterward commissioned by Presi- dent Lincoln medical director and surgeon in General Casey's division, and of provis- ional troops; and he was President Lin- coln's private medical attendant and con- sulting physician. His labors were espec- ially arduous, and he did much to alleviate the suffering of the soldiers by the erection of barrack hospitals, and brought order out of chaos by the proper systematizing of the service. He saw active service in the field before Yorktown, and soon after was dis- abled while bearing special dispatches to Washington, and was obliged to resign. He has indulged quite extensively in foreign travel, for health and pleasure, and officially, as delegate from the American Medical Association, of which he is vice- president. He read papers before the British Medical Association at Cambridge and the Academy of Medicine at Paris. In the same year he published in London a " Practical Treatise on Hernia," a second edition being published in 1882 in America. He operated in Guy's Hospital in London and elsewhere to demonstrate the method. He later published a "Plea for the Cure of Rupture," and has written many mono- graphs and medical papers, as well as ar- ticles relating to general literature. He was among the first, if not the first, to aspi- rate the pericardium (April, 1&55), and to perform the operation of paracentesis tho- racis (August, 1856). He engaged in medical journalism in Florida, while travel- ing there for his health, publishing "Tech- nics," and establishing the " Southern Sun." a newspaper of independent character. The publication of "Technics" and also of "Modern Life" was continued in Boston after his return, and they are now merged 111 " Notes Current." [>r. Warren is a member of the British Medical Association; a permanent member and now vice-president of the American Medical Association, fellow of the Mas- sachusetts Medical, and Sullolk District Medical societies; an honorary member of the Vermont State Medical Society and Otsego Medical Society of New York, and past member and president of Putnam County Medical Society and Slate Medical Society, Florida. He is a trustee of the Boston Penny Savings Dank, and is a mem- ber of a number of literary, historical, sci- entific, and social societies.