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

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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$At a Meetins^ of the Directors of Green:i'ich Hospi- tal^ at that PlacCy on Monday the \OtJi of January^ J814; PRESENT, CAPTAIN BROWELL, Lieutenant-Governori LORD AUCKLAND, MR. VENN, REV. MR. COOKE, DR. ROBERTSON; 4'he Board resumed the consideralion of the ]>ctter of tlie 27lli of last moidh, from the Physician, Surgeon, and Apolhecar}’’, and of the Keport which accompanied it, detailing the effect of the operations performed by Mr. Adams on several of the I’ensioners afflicted with Cataracts, and other Diseases of the J'iyes; and the Physician being at the Board, Mr. Adams, and also the Apothecary and Surgeon’s two Assistants, (the Surgeon being absent by indisposition), were called in; and the Bo;*rd, witli .n view of ascertaining the comparative success of the different modes of Practice, in Cases of Cataract and closed Pupil, proceeded to examine the Pensioners on Avhom operations had been performed by other Oculists of undoubted character and eminence in their Practice. It ajjpeared that many of these Pensioners had irrecov'cral^ly lost their sight, the Eye being in several instances entirely sunk ; and that, except in one instance, they had not experienced the desired relief. The Pensioners who had been under the care of Mr. Adams were next examined and interrogated, and their respective Cases were compared widi the Report en- closed in the above-mentioned fA'tter froTU the Physician, Surgeon, and Apothecary ; and the Board were much gratified by so many instances of the great success which$