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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    [E] page 35. Sir William Adams states (Note, page 98), that *' it can be no matter of surprise, that there should have been a majority at this Meeting- in favour of the six Committee gentlemen. One of them, to my certain knowledge, went about canvassing the Governors of the Infirmary, to attend the Meeting (which had been convened to consider Mrs. Saunders' appeal), urging the same arguments which the head of the Committee was afterwards driven to the necessity of abandoning. One of my patients, upon whose veracity I can rely, informed me, that he was so canvassed by a zealous, and at all times, ready instrument to the wishes of the Medical Officers of the London Eye Infirmary. This same gentleman was prevailed upon to write a note to Mrs. Colkett (Mrs. Saunders), two years since, imme- diately after the attacks made upon me from the London Eye Infirmary, and when their authors ex- pected from my letter to Dr. Farre (in which I threat- ened to expose his conduct to Mrs. Saunders), that I should make a reply to them. Both Mr. and Mrs. Colkett informed me, that it was insinuated in this note, if she withheld from me any papers for which I applied, the Infirmary might do something for her. The allegations set forth in this note are unreserv- edly and wholly denied by the gentleman who is un- derstood to be alluded to. Proceedings of the descrip- tion mentioned by Sir William Adams, are not in any instance discovered by the Committee, nor can it be within the conception of their minds, that the Infirmary