THE Gentleman whose portrait is prefented to the public in this month's Magazine was born at Portsmouth about the year 1756, being the only fon of the late Martin Ware, Efq. who was many years the Mafter Ship-builder of his Majefty's Yard at Deptford.

After receiving the ufual education at the grammar-fchool, he was apprenticed to Ramfay Karr, Efq. Surgeon of the King's Yard at Portfmouth, a Gentleman not only well known to the naval men of his time for his chirurgical talents, but much esteemed by many of them for the hofpitable manner in which they were always entertained at his house and table.

In his connexion with Mr. Karr, Mr. Ware had an extenfive field for improvement in the mode of treating a variety of cafes arifing from the accidents which occurred among fome thousands of men employed in hip building; all of which cafes came immediately under the care of the Surgeon of the Yard. During his apprenticeship, he had the advantage, alfo, of frequently attending the practice of the Surgeons at Hailar Hofpital; and when this period terminated, he removed to St. Thomas's Hofpital in London, where he continued three years, tudying under the different Profeffors, and attending to the patients in this inftitution.

In the last year of his continuance at St. Thomas's, he was felected by the late Mr. Elfe, to be demonstrator under Dr. Collignon, the Profeffor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge.

About the fame time he was introduced to Mr. Wathen, a Surgeon of

confiderable eminence in London; who, after a thort acquaintance, invited him to aflift in his bufinefs, and foon afterwards very liberally offered to make him a partner in it. The offer was accepted, and the connexion between thefe Gentlemen continued fourteen years; during the latter half of which time, they were equal harers both in its duties and profits. It terminated in the year 1791; fince which time, Mr. Ware, as is well known in London, has purfued the practice of furgery

on his own account.

He has prefented to the public, at different times, various tracts on chirurgical fubjects, but the gater number of thele appertaining to diforders of the eyes, they have given him a particular fame in this branch of the profellion, and have to much increased his practice in cafes of this defcription, that but little time has been left himto attend to other fubje&s.

His first publication was entitled, "Remarks on the Ophthalmy, Prorophthalmy, and purulent Ey," and appeared in the year 1700. In this tract he propofed methods of cure confiderably different from thofe that were commonly used, and elucidated the plans of treatment by the defcription of appropriate cafes. A fecond edition was published in the year 1787, and a third in 1795; in both of which the Author made confiderable alterations and additions.

In the year 1787, Mr. Ware prefented a paper to the Medical Society of London, of which he was a Fellow, entitled, "A Cafe of Suppreffion of Urine, occalioned by an Enlargement

of the proftrate Gland :" to which he added "fome general Strictures on the Ufe of the Male Catheter, refpecting both the Structure of the Inftrument, and the Mode of introducing it." This paper was published in the fecond volume of the Memoirs of the Society; and it was republished by Mr. Ware in the year 1790, annexed to his obfervations on the Epiphora, or Watery Eye; a tract that has gone through a fecond edition.

In the year 1791, he gave to the pub. lic a Tranflation from the French, of the Baron de Wenzel's valuable Treatife on the Cataract; to which he added a confiderable number of remarks by way of notes.

In the year 1795, he published an "Enquiry into the Caufes which have most commonly prevented Succefs in the Operation of extracting the Cataract, with an Account of the Means by which they may either be obviated or counteracted."-To this were added, "Obfervations on the Means of procuring the Diffipation of the Cataract; and a Defcription of the Cafes of Eight Perfons who had been cured of the Gutta Serena; with various Remarks on the Nature and Treatment of this latter Disorder."

In the year 1798, his remarks appeared on the Fitula Lachrymalis, in which work he endeavoured to render the treatment of the diforder more fimple, and propofed a new operation for its cure. To this tract were added, "Obfervations on the Treatment of Hæmorhoids;" and fome" Additional Remarks on the Ophthalmy." In this latter part, Mr. Ware took occafion to recommend the application of hot water as a remedy which had not unfrequently afforded confiderable fervice when the eyes were weak and painful. We underftand he is of opinion, that though the free and frequent application of cold water is a common practice with nany perfons, and is fuppofed by fome to ftrengthen the eyes, it has fometimes proved very injurious; and he has reafon to believe it has a tendency to flatten the cornea, and to haften the need of spectacles: but, we hear, on this fubject he is ftill purfuing his enquiries.

In the year 1801, a paper of his was read before the Royal Society, and afterwards published in their Tranfactions, containing the cafe of a young gentleman, about feven years of age,

who, if not born blind, was deprived of fight by the end of his first year, and recovered it, in a confiderable degree, by undergoing an eafy and fimple operation. This cafe, in many respects, refembled the celebrated cafe related by Cheffelden: both the patients having lot their fight before they were able to form any judgment of the figure of bodies, but both retaining the power of diftinguishing strongly defined colours. The oblervations made by the two, however, on recovering their fight, were widely different: Mr. Cheffelden's patient being unable to distinguish either the distance or the fhape of objects, whereas Mr. Ware's, on the contrary, knew and described a letter, not only as white, but also as fquare, because it had corners; and an oval filver box, not only as shining, but alfo as round, because it had not corners. Mr. Ware mentioned this circumftance with diffidence, being aware that his patient's oblervations not only differed from thofe that are related of the young gentleman cured by Mr. Cheffelden; but appear, on the first statement, to oppofe a well known principle in optics, that the fenfes of fight and feeling have no other connexion than that which is formed by experience; and therefore that ideas, derived from feeling, have no power to afit the judgment in determining either the distance or form of visible objects. In order to remove this ob. jection, he defired it to be recollected that perfons, who have cataracts in their eyes, are not in ftrictnets of fpeech blind, though they are deprived of all ufeful fight. Mr. Cheffelden's patient, as well as Mr. Ware's, was able to perceive colours; and this knowledge Mr. Ware thinks is fufficient to give them fome idea of dif tance, even in their darkest state. When, therefore, their fight is cleared by the removal of the opaque body which intercepted the light, and the colour of objects is made to appear ftronger, Mr. Ware is of opinion, from the cafe here ftated, that the ideas of distance may be so far strengthened and extended, as to give them fome know. ledge even of the outline and figure of thofe objects, of the colour of which they had previously an indiftinct conception. In this paper the author took occafion to recommend an operation, for the cure of cataracts in children, much more simple than that which is

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