Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen ... for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practised by Mr. Adams, for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia.

  • Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Date:
1814
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Credit: Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen ... for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practised by Mr. Adams, for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6* SiUj Jloyal [njirmurj/, Dec. 27, ISIS. We niclosn hcrcwitli, for the iiijonnation ot the Directors, separate Reports of the results of the wezr and o/d operations for the cure of Cataract Avhicli liave been practised upon tlie Pensioners of the Ivojal Hos- pital, th(' great disparity in Avliich cannot fail to make a strong impression on tlie minds of tlic Honourable Members of the Hoard. Ill order to bring them equally acquainted with the luerly practised, as Avell us with the great success of Mr. Adams’s imjiroved modes of curing that Disease, wc have given a detailed description of the result of ^ each, Avitli the present state of the Dyes which have been submitted to the trial of the two Systems. The jiroportion of J'yes totally destroyed liy the ope- ration of extraction amounts to oiu'-half the number operated upon; to this the success of Mr. Adams, more particularly in th<‘ cases w hich had been considered in- curable, as well as those jireviously operated upon w ith- out beiK'tit, forms a very striking contrast, as it will be s('en that his operatiojis have failed but in one instance. 'Fo enable the Hoard fully to a])preciate tliis success, we think it proper to jioint out, tliat even in the men whose vision is not at all, or but partially, benefited, (witJi the exception of Ford,) the operations were as perfectly executed as on those whose sight is completely