WARE (James). Chirurgical Observations Relative to the Epiphora, or Watery Eye, the Scrophulous and Intermittent Ophthalmy, the Extraction of the Cataract, and the Introduction of the Male Catheter.1792

Printed for C. Dilly. First Edition, vi,[ii],78pp., with half-title, one folding engraved plate showing the catheter, orig. calf calf, rubbed, re-backed. James Ware (1756–1815), surgeon and oculist, studied under Jonathan Wathen and from 1777 to 1791 shared his London practice which specialised in the treatment of diseases of the eye. Ware was the first "bare oculist" to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a distinction that greatly contributed to the recognition of ophthalmic surgery as a scientific endeavour.