James Bray Costen
| Born | 1895 |
| Died | 1962 |
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Biography of James Bray Costen
James Bray Costen was born in Tennessee but grew up in Arkansas. While in high school, he was apprenticed to a local physician who taught him to give open drop anaesthesia for office procedures and dressing changes.
After high school, attended Virginia Military Institute, but when his father became ill one year later he returned and attended the University of Arkansas. He graduated the Department of Chemistry. He then went to Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, which was affiliated with St Louis Medical College.
When the United States entered the war in 1917 Costen volunteered. After his return he completed medical school and then went to Vienna to study at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna. From Vienna he went to Basel, Switzerland, where he concentrated on the mastoid bone and its dissection.
Back in St. Louis, he married Carolyn Thompson. They had one son and three daughters.
Costen practised for about one year with another otolaryngologist, then settled in solo practice in midtown St. Louis and remained there for the rest of his career.
