Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / by John Vetch.

Date:: 1818

Credit: Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / by John Vetch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$operation where milder means are sufficient, could never have been deemed an improvement, by those appointed to judge, if the case had been brought fairly before them. ■ ■ I', r, i • • . . ■ • r ' I shall now follow the evidence of the cases recently published by Sir Wm. Adams, in order to shew how inexpedient the operation lias proved itself to be, and how completely he has failed in the application of it. ■\ Of the cases adduced by Sir Wm. Adams, in the publication referred to—CA Letter addressed to the Governors of Greenwich Hospital”—I shall confine my observations to those which he received from the hospital under my directions, and which he includes in what he calls the second trial of his operation. Their names are Joseph Winter, John Capel, and David Grey, being three men out of five whom Sir Wm. Adams was permitted to select from the whole number of cases, which I left at the Ophthalmia Hospital, when removed from that duty, and which he of course selected as the most favour- able for the plan of treatment he had then ii) view.$

Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / by John Vetch.

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