J. B. S. Jackson
John Barnard Swett Jackson | |
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![]() J. B. S. Jackson, portrait by William Morris Hunt | |
Born | June 5, 1806 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | January 6, 1879 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 72)
Education | |
9th Dean of the Harvard Medical School | |
In office 1853–1855 | |
Preceded by | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
Succeeded by | David Humphreys Storer |
John Barnard Swett Jackson (June 5, 1806 – January 6, 1879) was an American surgeon and pathologist.[1][2] He was the first curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum and was dean of Harvard Medical School from 1853 to 1855.[3][4] In 1854, the Shattuck Professorship of Morbid Anatomy at Harvard Medical School was created for him. He held the post from then until his death in 1879, when the position was renamed the Shattuck Professorship of Pathological Anatomy.[5] He was a member of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.[6]
Jackson was born June 5, 1806, in Boston, Massachusetts.[7] Jackson graduated from Harvard College in 1825 and Harvard Medical School in 1829.[8] Jackson married Emily Jane Andrews in 1853 [9] and they had two sons together, Henry and Robert Tracy.[6] He died of pneumonia on January 6, 1879, in Boston.
References
- ^ Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). . . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
- ^ "John Barnard Swett Jackson". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 14: 344–352. 1879. JSTOR 25138545.
- ^ The President and Fellows of Harvard College (2013). "Past Deans of the Faculty of Medicine". Retrieved 22 Oct 2013.
- ^ Harvard University (1843). Annual Report on Harvard University. University Press. pp. 4–.
- ^ "Passing the Torch: The Shattuck professorship of anatomy", Harvard Medical School Perspectives, 1989
- ^ a b Kelly, Howard; Burrage, Walter (1920), American Medical Biographies, Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, pp. 602–603
- ^ Chamberlain, Joshua L.; Wingate, Charles E. L.; Williams, Jesse Lynch; Lee, Albert; Paine, Henry G., eds. (1899). Universities and their Sons. Vol. III. Introduction by William Torrey Harris. R. Herndon Company.
- ^ "Open Collections Program: Contagion, Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive). 000603483". ocp.hul.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-08-26.
- ^ Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, Todd L. Savitt, eds. "John Barnard Swett Jackson," in Dictionary of American Medical Biography, Volume A-L (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1984), 388.
- J. G. Mumford, M.D. The Story of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, (Boston: Damrell & Upsham Publishers, 1901)
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- A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement
- Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson
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