J. B. S. Jackson Explained

John Barnard Swett Jackson
Birth Date:	June 5, 1806
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Death Place:	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education:	Harvard University (BA, MD)
Module:	Embed: yes Office: 9th Dean of the Harvard Medical School Termstart: 1853 Termend: 1855 Predecessor: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Successor: 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. He was a member of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Jackson was born June 5, 1806, in Boston, Massachusetts.^[5] Jackson graduated from Harvard College in 1825 and Harvard Medical School in 1829.^[6] Jackson married Emily Jane Andrews in 1853 ^[7] and they had two sons together, Henry and Robert Tracy. He died of pneumonia on January 6, 1879, in Boston.

References

• • J. G. Mumford, M.D. The Story of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, (Boston: Damrell & Upsham Publishers, 1901)

External links

• A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement
• Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson
• Dissection of Two Adult Dromedaries
• Dissection of a Spermaceti Whale and Three Other Cetaceans

Notes and References

1. Jackson, John Barnard Swett.
2. John Barnard Swett Jackson . Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 14 . 1879 . 344–352 . 25138545.
3. Web site: The President and Fellows of Harvard College . Past Deans of the Faculty of Medicine . 2013 . 22 Oct 2013.
4. Book: Harvard University. Annual Report on Harvard University. 1843. University Press. 4–.
5. Book: Universities and their Sons . R. Herndon Company . . 1899 . Chamberlain . Joshua L. . Joshua Chamberlain . III . Wingate . Charles E. L. . Williams . Jesse Lynch . Jesse Lynch Williams . Lee . Albert . Paine . Henry G..
6. Web site: Open Collections Program: Contagion, Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive). 000603483 . ocp.hul.harvard.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130826150135/http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/contagion/000603483 . 2013-08-26.
7. 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.