Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the Directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich, on several of the pensioners belonging thereto, for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practiced by Sir William Adams for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia / published by order of the Directors.

  • Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the Directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich, on several of the pensioners belonging thereto, for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practiced by Sir William Adams for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia / published by order of the Directors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At a Meeting of the Directors of Greenwich Jiospi- ial, at that Place, on Mondai/ the lOth of Jnmtarij^ 1814; PRESENT, CAPTAIN BROWELL, Lieutenant-Governor; LOUD AUCKLAND, 1 MR. VENN, REV. MR. COOKE, I DR. ROBERTSON; The Board resumed the consideration of the Letter of the 27tli of last month, from the Physician, Surgeon, and Apothecary, and of the Report which accompanied it, detailing tlie effect of tlie operations performed by Mr. Adams on several of the Pensioners afflicted with Cataracts, and other Diseases of the Eyes; and the Physician being at the Board, Mr. Adams, and also the Apotliecary and Surgeon's two Assistants, (tlie Surgeon being absent by indisposition), were called in; and the Board, with a view of ascertaining the comparative success of the different modes of Practice, in Cases of Cataract and closed Pupil, proceeded to examine the Pensioners on whom operations had been performed by other Oculists of undoubted character and eminence in their Practice. It appeared that many of these Pensioners had irrecoverably lost their sight, the Eye being in several instances entirely sunk; and that, except in one instance, they had not experienced the desired relief. The Pensioners who had been under the care of Mr. Adams were next examined and interrogated, and their respective Cases were compared with the Report en- closed in tlie above-mentioned Letter from the Physician, Surgeon, and Apothecary ; and the Board were much gratified ]by so many instances of the great success w hich