Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital.

  • London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye
Date:
1818
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Credit: Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    statement stands directly opposed to the truth— words more grossly false could not be uttered. Mrs. Colkettdied in the month of June, 1817, leaving one child, heir to about eighty pounds per annum, which is understood to remain of her trust property ; the annuity of fifty pounds is also understood to have been continued, by her father, to the time of her death. Your Committee have now to consider the pamphlet of Sir William Adams, with reference to the Medical Directors and Honorary Secretary of the Infirmary. By the title page of his publication, Sir William Adams proposes to expose the mea- sures resorted to by the Medical Officers of the London Eye Infirmary for the purpose of re- tarding the adoption and execution of plans for the extermination of the Egyptian ophthalmia from the army and from the kingdom. And it appears to your Committee, that Sir William Adams attempts to support the charge, chiefly, by instancing four successive attacks upon himself from the Infirmary. The first is a Letter from Mr. Battley. The second—A Special Report of the General Committee, published in the Year 1814. The third and fourth—Applications to the ]>