John Richard Farre (31 January 1775 – 7 May 1862) was an English physician.

Early life

The son of Richard John Farre, a medical practitioner, he was born on 31 January 1775 in

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. After school education in the island he studied medicine under his father, and in 1792 came to England and studied medicine at the school then formed by the united hospitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's. At the end of 1793 he became a member of the corporation of surgeons, and went with Mr. Foster, surgeon to

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, to France in the

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's expedition. After the expedition failed he came back to London, and afterwards entered practice in the island of Barbados.

Career

In 1800 he returned to England, studied for two years in Edinburgh, and took the degree of M.D. at Aberdeen on 22 January 1806. He became licentiate of the

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of London on 31 March 1806, and began practice as a physician. He was one of the founders of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, to which he was physician for fifty years. His portrait, by Thomas Phillips, R.A., was to be seen in the board-room of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Moorfields, London.

Works

He edited James's book on ''Arterial and Secondary Haemorrhage'' in 1805 and

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on ''Diseases of the Eye'' in 1811. He also edited the ''Journal of Morbid Anatomy, Ophthalmic Medicine and Pharmaceutical Analysis''. He himself wrote ''The Morbid Anatomy of the Liver'', London, 1812–1815, and ''Pathological Researches on Malformations of the Human Heart'', London, 1814. This work contains an account of nearly all the cases recorded in England up to its date, and of several observed by the author. His specimens, with others, illustrative of other parts of morbid anatomy, were preserved in the museum of

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, to which they were presented by his sons.

Family and later life

He retired from practice in 1856, died on 7 May 1862, and is buried at Kensal Green. His house was in Charterhouse Square, and he had two sons who attained distinction in medicine, Frederic John Farre and

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