Practical inquiry into the causes of the frequent failure of the operations of depression, and of the extraction of the cataract, as usually performed : with the description of a series of new and improved operations, by the practice of which, most of the causes of failure may be avoided, illustrated by tables of the comparative success of the new and old modes of practice / by Sir William Adams.
- William Adams
- Date:
- 1817
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![tend his fame and reputation; and at other times bring- ing forward other writiDgs as his, which in reality, as well as in their own knowledge, art^ not so, with the intention of calumniating him, bv proclaiming that he had made public his sriccess, whi'e he M'ithheld from the knowledge of the profession the means by which he had obtained that success ; however such reviewers may gain confidence in their outset, and whatever may be the term of that confidence, they must sink into utter disgrace in the end. Mankind will not for ever be deceived; the still, small voice of truth, will at length prevail; the ephemeral pages will lose the power of poisoning the public mind ; and the work and the workmen w ill be alike degraded in tlie estima- tion of every man of integrity and respectability. It would extend this letter too far to observe upon the whole of the attacks made upon me in different Reviews and periodica] publications. Many of them are indeed unworthy of notice ; but, from the superior character of the Quarterhf Review^ I cannot pass over in silence, the manner in which my work on Diseases of the Eve has been there reviewed, and associated with the Greenwich Report, as if both were written and published by me. The two publications are actually reviewed in the same article ; and (as in the Edinburgh Medical Jour- nal) it is throughout carefully concealed from the knowledge of the reader, that the Official Papers were published by order of the Directors of Greenwich Hospital, in which publication I was in no degree con- cerned, but inasmuch as it was the pleasure of the Board to publish, with the other official papers, my letter addressed to them, and written for their perusal. Had the editor of the Quarterly Review been ac-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21284301_0604.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
