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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![mittee again refer to the Appendix [A] [B] for copies of Memorials to His Royal Hig-hness the Duke of York, and to Viscounts Melville and Sidmouth, and to the Lords Commissioners of liis Majesty's Treasury. Your Committee, having noticed the four several attacks alleged by Sir William Adams, proceed with great reluctance to notice another attempt upon his character, with which Sir Wil- liam Adams charges the Medical Officers of the Infirmary. On this unpleasant topic he sets out by stating,— That it has been proved by him, in the course of his pamphlet, that Mr. Saunders regarded him to the last with respect and affection ; that he was the legitimate successor of Mr. Saunders ; that none of those practising as oculists had ever seen Mr. Saunders operate on cataract; and that by adding in notes the result of his own experience, he should have been enabled ma- terially to increase the value and public utility of Mr. Saunders' posthumous work, of which, for such and other reasons, he was desirous, on the death of Mr. Saunders, of becoming the editor. Sir William Adams then introduces a letter addressed to him by John Milford, Esq. dated the 15th March, 1815, in which letter Ml'. Milford states, that, upon the arrival of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21473687_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
