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nation to burn vessel and cargo. When the party arrived opposite the State House, they were met by Judge Samuel Chase, who had been employed as a lawyer by the owner of the vessel, a Scotch merchant. This gentleman pro- ceeded to harangue them in the interest of hi.s client, and was making some impression, when Warfield interrupted him, upbraiding him for inconsistency, for he had previously inflamed the whole country with patriotic speeches, and declaring it submission or cowardice in any member of the club to stop short of their object. As the party marched on, they met Stewart who put on a bold front and threatened them with the vengeance of his king and government. They erected a gallows in front of his house and gave him his choice, either to swing by the halter or go with them on board and set fire to the vessel. He chose the latter and the doctor accompanied him with a chunk of fire. In a few moments the whole cargo and vessel were in flames, and were soon entirely destroyed.

In 1812 he was president of the College of Medicine of Maryland at Baltimore (University of Maryland), a position which he held till his death, which occurred at his place "Bushy Park," on January 29, 1813. At the meeting held in June following a committee of five members of the state faculty was appointed to prepare a testimonial to his life.

Dr. Warfield was a founder of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Mary- land in 1799 and from 1803 to 1813 was also on its Board of State Examiners. He had a wide reputation as a physician and an extensive practice and taught many medical students in his office. He married Miss Eliza Ridgely, a daughter of Maj. Henry Ridgely. He has left many descendants in Maryland. There is an oil portrait of him extant which has been reproduced with sketches in Cordell's "Medical Annals of Maryland," 1903, and Cordell's "History of the University of Maryland," 1907, vol. i; see also ap- pendix to latter. The portrait represents

a short person of perhaps forty-five with a full suit of gray hair, a full face and regular features and a most determined expression. E. F. C.

Warren, John (1753-1815).

He was born in the family homestead in Roxbury, Massachusetts, July 27, 1753, and graduated at Harvard in 1770, after which he studied medicine for two years with his brother, Joseph, then practised in Salem. He was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, attending the wounded on the field and coolly exposing liimself to the fire of the British. He received a bayonet wound in endeavoring to pass a sentry in order to see his brother and after the battle was appointed hospi- tal surgeon, and in 1776 accompanied the Continental Army to New York and New Jersey. He was at Trenton and Prince- ton, where he rendered distinguished service.

For nearly forty years John Warren occupied the foremost place among the surgeons of New England. He was recognized as the leading medical expert and surgical scientist of the times. In 1780 he demonstrated anatomy in a series of dissections before his colleagues, and in 1783 was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery in the newly established medical school at Harvard. When the Massachusetts medical society was organized he was chosen as its first president, an office which he held con- tinuously from 1804 until his death in 1815.

Dr. Warren's avocations outside of his profession of medicine and surgery were pursued with the same intelligence and zeal that characterized his regular work.

Warren was the author of "Mercurial Practice in Febrile Diseases," a volume that had a wide vogue among the frater- nity. In addition he wrote "Memoirs," addressed to the American academy, "Communications," published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, and numerous articles in "The Journal of Medicine and Surgery." He died in Boston, April 4, 1815. G. F. B.