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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    IV t « were directed to attend the operations, to ajfonl everi/ assistance, and to report to the Directors the pro~ gress and result, A House was accordingly/ taken in Air-street, Piccadilly/, for the accommodation of the Pensiojters, and the conve?iience of the Oculist; hut being found, in many/ respects, unsuitable, another was afterwards hired in Lisle-street, Leicester-sqiiare, every/ way/ adapted to the comfort of the Patients. It appearing, by/the Reports of the Medical Officers of the Hospital, that the operations performed on the Blind Pensioners by/ JSlr. Adams had been attended with great success, the Directors were desirous of viewing the men, and for that purpose convened a special meeting, at which the Pensioiiers, as well those who had been U7ider the care of former Oculists, as the Patients of Mr. Adams, were examined and indivi- dually/ interrogated; and as the. effect of the operations performed by/ the latter, as stated in the Reports of the Phy/sician, Surgeon, and Apothecary/, was found to be accurately/ detailed, the Directors have considered it to be their duty/ to give publicity/ to the Official Reports and Proceedings on a subject so interesting to humanity/.