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John Ware, M. D., died in Boston on the 29th of April, 1864. 

 He was the son of the Reverend Henry Ware, for thirty-five years 

 Professor of Theology in Harvard Univei-sity, and was born in Hing- 

 ham, Massachusetts, on the 19th of December, 1795. He was graduated 

 at Harvard College in 1813, received the degree of Doctor of Medi- 

 cine in 1816, and commenced practice in Duxbury ; but in 1817 he re- 

 moved to Boston, where he resided during the rest of his hfe. By the 

 force of his excellent qualities and steady devotion to his profession, 

 he gradually acquired an extensive and profitable practice. In 1832 

 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Theory and Practice in the 

 Medical Department of Harvard University, and on the resignation of 

 Dr. James Jackson in 1836 he succeeded him in the chair, which he 

 occupied until 1858. In 1848 he was elected President of the Massa- 

 chusetts Medical Society, which office he held until 1852.* 



Dr. Ware belonged to a family eminently distinguished for mental 

 and moral endowments. His father was respected as a scholar and 

 famous as a controversialist. His brother Henry, of whom he wrote a 

 Memoir, was widely known as a preacher and theological writer, and 

 had a decided poetical talent ; his brother William, also much esteemed 

 as a preacher, achieved an extended reputation by his classical novels 

 " Zenobia" and " Aurelian." He himself showed a tendency to liter- 

 ary pursuits, one of his earliest publications being a work of imagi- 

 nation. But his life was given mainly to his profession, and his 

 most important writings are connected with the history and treatment 



* The following is a list of his principal published writings : — 

 1823. Charles Ashton, a Story. 



1833. Duties and Qualifications of Physicians. A Lecture. 

 1836. Remarks on the History and Treatment of Delirium Tremens. In the 



" Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society." 

 1838. An Appendix to this Essay, in the same publication. 



1842. Contributions to the History and Diagnosis of Croup. In the "New 



England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery." 



1843. Medical Education. A Lecture. 



1846. Memoir of Henry Ware, Jr. 



1847. Condition and Prospects of the Medical Profession. A Lecture. 

 1860. On Hasmoptysis as a Symptom. In the "Publications of the Massa- 

 chusetts Medical Society." 



1860. Philosophy of Natural History; being the last of a series of editions of 

 Smellie, to which much important matter was added. 

 He also published an Essay on the Relations of the Sexes, and various other 

 articles. 



