Edward John Waring

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Edward John Waring

1819–1891

A 19th-century British physician and medical writer, he is remembered for practical books that drew on his years of service in India. His work ranges from therapeutics and pharmacopoeia to accessible guides on Indian medicinal plants.

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Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India

Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India

by Edward John Waring

About the author

Edward John Waring (14 December 1819 – 22 January 1891) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a surgeon in the service of the British East India Company. According to the Royal College of Surgeons, he was educated at Lyme Regis and Ilminster Grammar School, then trained at Bristol Infirmary, the Lamb Street School, and Charing Cross Hospital.

Before and after qualifying in 1842, he worked widely: he served as a ship's surgeon, spent time in Jamaica, and later built much of his career in India. Sources describe him as a surgeon in the Madras establishment who remained there through the Burmese war, experiences that informed his long interest in practical medicine and local remedies.

Waring is best known today for medical books including A Manual of Practical Therapeutics (1865), Pharmacopoeia of India (1866), and the two-volume Bibliotheca Therapeutica (1878). He also wrote Remarks on the Uses of Some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India, a work that helped document medicines and plants in everyday use across India.