A reply by Sir William Adams to a recent publication against him, purporting to be the Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary, for Curing Diseases of the Eye.

  • Adams, Sir William, 1783-1827.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A reply by Sir William Adams to a recent publication against him, purporting to be the Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary, for Curing Diseases of the Eye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    management of the Infirmary. 2dly. The merits of the late J. C. Saunders, esq., the founder of the Infirmary. 3dly. The conduct of the Committee towards the late Mrs. Col- kett, the widow of Mr. Saunders ; and 4thly. The conduct 'of the Medical Officers. Upon the first head it were idle to dwell. For I have never disputed the merits of the Infirmary, or the good it has produced, but I do deny the truth of the allegation contained in the Report, that what I have introduced to jjublic notice, is the practice which I was taught at the Infirmary. The fallacy of this notion 1 have proved in my Letter to the Directors of Greenwich Hospital, where the nature of my present practice, as contrasted with that which was pursued at the London Eye Infirmary, is fully ex- plained. I have further to observe on the first head, that however universal was the diffusion of the modes of cure practised by the Medical Directors of the London Eye Infirmary, however great the number, or however high the rank of the pupils instructed by them, whether those pupils were natives of the West Indies, America, Germany, Portugal, or other parts of the globe, the fact for which I have contended, and which Doctor Faire still affects to deny, is fully established—namely, that the general existence of the granulations of the lids—the necessity for their removal—as well as a certain mode of cure for such cases of Egyptian Ophthalmia, were un- known to the Army Medical Board, and to the Surgeons of the Army, until I made my practice known in 1812. Now as to Mr. Saunders.—It has uniformly been the policy of the framers of this Report, to excite against me the hostility of the friends of Mr. Saunders, by representing, that I had acted ungratefully and dishonourably towards
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