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WARE 1191 WARFIELD I fort he wrote, "My success in life, profession- ally, is, as often I reflect upon it, a matter of surprise to me. I came to Boston with no advantages of friends, or relations, or purse." Frym 1848 to 1852 he served as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society and in the latter year he was appointed adjunct professor to Dr. James Jackson (q.v.), Hersey professor of the theory and practice of physic in the Harvard Medical School. Four years later he succeeded Dr. Jackson in the professorship, which he held until 1858. In 1839, with Drs. Jacob Bigelow (q.v.) and Enoch Hale (q.v.), he founded the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, a medical organization with a most honorable history. In 1842 Dr. Ware published a "Con- tribution to the Historj' and Diagnosis of Croup." He pointed out that "the only form of croup attended with any considerable dan- ger to life is that distinguished by the presence of a false membrane in the air passages." This may be regarded as one of the earhest recog- nitions of the characteristics of diphtheria. He also published essays on delirium tremens and on hemoptysis. He was much interested in natural science, and he enlarged with original matter and re-published Smellie's "Natural Histor'" under the title of "Philosophy of Natural History," by Ware and SmelUe. He also wrote a memoir of his brother, the Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. Dr. Ware was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For a short time he was visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital, and on the organization of the Boston City Hospital in 1864, was appointed to the consulting staff. For the last twenty years of his life his health was somewhat impaired, and he spent his sum- mers and leisure moments on his country place in Weston, although continuing in practice as a consultant. He died of apoplexy in Boston, April 29, 1864. Dr. Jacob Bigelow said of him : "A favorite term used b)- Dr. Ware in enumerating the various causes of mortality was 'hyper- practice.' He had an instinctive aversion to over-drugging. His prescriptions were simple, seldom containing more than one, two or three articles." Dr. 'are married April 22, 1822, Helen Lincoln, daughter of Desire Thaxtcr and Dr. Levi Lincoln, of Hingham, and had eight chil- dren. One of his sons was Maj. Robert Ware, A. B. (Harvard), 1852, M. D. 1856, surgeon of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry, who lost his Hfe in the War of the Rebellion. Mrs. Ware died in 1858, and in 1862, Dr. Ware mar- ried Mary Green Chandler, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, who survived him. Dr. Ware's portrait and bust may be seen in the Boston Medical Library in John Ware Hall, which was dedicated to his memory by his son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Green. Dr. Ware's memory is perpetuated in the Harvard Medical School by the en- dowment, in 1891, by William Story Bullard, of the John Ware Memorial Fellowship. At the same time Mr. Bullard established similar fellowships in memory of Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck and of Dr. Charles Eliot Ware (half- brother of John Ware). At a meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society held May 25, 1864, shortly after Dr. Ware's death, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes read a poem in memory of John and Robert Ware, father and son. One stanza referring to John Ware, but applicable alike to his son, "A whiter soul, a fairer mind, A life with purer course and aim, A gentler eye, a voice more kind. We may not look on earth to find. The love that lingers o'er his name Is more than fame." Walter L. Burr.^ge. Ware Genealogy: Robert Ware of Dedham, Mass., 1642-1699, and his Lineal Descendants, Boston, 190L Family records and Dr. Ware's Diary, through his daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Green. Boston Med. & Surg. Jour., vol. Ixx, 284; vol. x, 347. Coramun. Mass. Med. Soc. Cent. Amer. Med., Dr. Edward H. Clarke, 1876. Hist. Boston City Hosp., 1906. The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Warfieid, Charles Alexander (1751-1813) He was the son of Azel Warfieid, and was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, December 3, 1751. He is credited with having been a graduate (M. B. ?) of the College of Medicine of Philadelphia, but his name does not occur in the catalogue, and he signs a diploma of the College of Medicine of Mary- land as "Praeses" in 1812, without degree. He early took sides against England in the dis- putes with the American colonists. In 1774 we find him major of a battalion in his county and wearing a label bearing the dangerous in- scription : "Liberty and Independence or Death in Pursuit of It." In October of the same year, hearing of the arrival of the Brig Peggy Stewart, in the harbor of Annapolis, loaded with forbidden tea, on the nineteenth of the month he placed himself at the head of the "Whig Club," of which he was a prominent member, and marched to the capital with the determination to burn vessel and cargo. When the party arrived opposite the State House, j they were met by Judge Samuel Chase, who