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.

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    53 of his decease, having continued to entertain sen- timents of respect and regard for Mr. Adams, it is established to the entire conviction of your Committee, that Mr. Saunders had withdrawn his confidence from Mr. Adams for a considerable time previous to his lamented death—that the conduct of Mr. Adams in the use which he made of the advantages which he had derived from the friendship of Mr. Saunders, produced extreme embarrassment and mortification to the mind of Mr. Saunders, and continued to agitate his spirits to the day of his death. See Ap- pendix [I]. That your Committee can find no trace of evi- dence of Mr. Saunders having corresponded with Mr. Adams later than May, 1809. That Sir William Adams, in lieu of having any pretension to the title of legitimate successor to Mr. Saunders, does not appear to have been made acquainted, by Mr. Saunders, with his improvements in practice after the month of May, 1807, when the Institution had existed but little more than two years : whereas, Mr. Saunders had freely communicated his latter practice to other gentlemen. That the professional mind and views, the entire practice of Mr. Saunders, were, in parti- cular, intimately known to Dr. Farre, his friend and colleague in practice.