A special report of the General Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye : in which certain pretensions of Sir William Adams, advanced in the official papers published by order of the Hon. directors of Greenwich Hospital, lately submitted to a medical committee, appointed by government, and affecting the rights of the Infirmary, and the merits of the late John Cunningham Saunders, Esq. its founder and surgeon; are examined and disproved bythe correspondence of Mr. Saunders, and other documents.

  • London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye
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1815
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Credit: A special report of the General Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye : in which certain pretensions of Sir William Adams, advanced in the official papers published by order of the Hon. directors of Greenwich Hospital, lately submitted to a medical committee, appointed by government, and affecting the rights of the Infirmary, and the merits of the late John Cunningham Saunders, Esq. its founder and surgeon; are examined and disproved bythe correspondence of Mr. Saunders, and other documents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT or THE Committee of Medical Directors OfTHR LONDON INFIRMARY FOR CURING DISEASES OF THE EYE, ON THE EVIDENCE SUBMITTED TO THEIR EXAMINATION UKSPECTINO • ERTAIN CLAIMS OT SIR WILLIAM ADAMS TO NEW MODES OF TREATMENT ny OPERATION FOR THE CURE 01' THE EGYPTIAN OPHTHALMIA. A PUBLICATION entitled An Abric]2:ment of the Official Papers relating to Operations performed by Order of the Directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich, on several of the Pensioners belonging thereto, for the Purpose of ascertaining the general Efficacy of the new Modes of Treatnnent practised by Mr. Adams, for the Cure of the various Species of Cataract, and the Egyptian Ophthalmia, being first examined byyour Committee, no pro- fessional information respecting Mr. Adams's