Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1520

JOHN WARE (1795-1864) An introductory lecture delivered before the medical class in Harvard University, on the 16th of October, 1833. Hilliard, Gray 1833 40 pp. 21.5 cm.

A Massachusetts physician, Ware was educated at Harvard Medical School where he became Hersey professor of the theory and practice of medicine. He published a noteworthy book on croup in which he was one of the first to recognize the characteristics of diphtheria. He also published essays on hemoptysis and delirium tremens in which he gave classic descriptions of their symptoms. With Walter Channing he edited the New England journal of medicine and surgery which eventually became the New England journal of medicine. This introductory lecture to his course in the elements of medical science was published at the request of his class, and in it he expounds upon his views on the character, deportment, and conduct of the physician.

Gift of Robert N. Larimer, M.D