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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    an effort would have been made to direct the liberality of that respectable house to her advantage. [H] page 51. Sir William Adams states (Note, page 62), that Dr. Gooch, actuated by the most honourable feelings, on hearing part of the contents of the Medical Report read at the Meeting of this Committee, withdrew in disgust, but, to his surprise, afterwards, found his name affixed to a public document, the nature of which he utterly disapproved, &c. The Committee are authorized to state, that Dr. Gooch did not retire from the Committee-room in disgust, as represented by Sir William Adams, and that he has not said, that he disapproved of the Report; although not pleased, for reasons of which he is himself to judge, on finding that his name was published in connexion therewith: that feeling, on the part of Dr. Gooch, does not, however, in any manner, bring into question the conduct of the Committee who ordered the publication of the Special Report, the whole of whose proceedings were perfectly regular. Dr. Gooch has not taken any part in the proceedings of the present Committee. [I] page 55. Sir William Adams, in his pamphlet, page 5, states, that he attended the London Infirmary from May, 1807, to August, 1808.