James Ware (1756-1815), FRS, ophthalmic surgeon
- Ware, James, 1756-1815.
- Date:
- 1760s-1780s
- Reference:
- MSS.5365-5369 & 5428
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Miscellaneous papers: notes for lectures on the eye and its disorders, notes on anatomy and mathematics, and a partnership indenture.
Publication/Creation
1760s-1780s
Physical description
5 volumes and 1 document
Contributors
Acquisition note
Deposited by Dr Martin Ware, 1985-1987 (accessions 346709, 347590, 347697), with the exception of MS.5428 which was presented by Douglas G. Lister in 1986 (acc.347664).
Biographical note
James Ware was an eminent surgeon and oculist, born about 1756, Portsmouth. After having been demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge, he formed a partnership in the metropolis with Mr Wathen, which continued until 1791; after which he practised on his own account and attained a first-rate reputation. Among his works are Observations on Ophthlamy, Remarks on Fistula Lachrymalis, Chirurgical Observations. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died 1815.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
Two letters by Ware are held as MS.8006/8.
At other repositories:
Further papers of James Ware are deposited in the Surrey Record Office, Guildford Muniment Room (ref. 1487).
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Location of duplicates
For a longhand transcription, see MS. 5428.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- acc. 346709, 347590, 347664, 347697