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 treatment practised by Sir William 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, at Greenwich, on several of the pensioners belonging thereto, for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practised by Sir William Adams for the cure of the various species of cataract and the Egyptian ophthalmia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the others proceeding as favourably as could be ex- pected. The superior success of Mr. Adams's new modes of practice, when compared with the operation performed on the Pensioners for the last fifteen years, is very striking. On examining the latter it appears, that out of twent2/-four Ej/es, operated upon, several had been destroyed; in other instances the Pupils had become obliterated, and one only had been benefited, and even in that the success is incomplete. Among the men already cured, some of the cases are SO remarkable as to merit particular notice. Edward Turner had, during six months that he was a Patient of the London Ej'e Infirmary, undergone thirteen operations; nevertheless, he obtained but very h'ttle benefit in one eye, and Done in the other: Mr. Adams has cured both by one operation on each, Hartgill had been blind for near twenty years, and was con- sidered by every Oculist of eminence in London to labour under Gutta Serena. Mr. Adams has successfully operated,on him, and lie is now capable of reading the smallest piinf. Bray, aged seventy-nine years, is cured of Cataract in both Eyes, and was capable, in the space of a fortnight, of seeing the minutest objects. Douglas, aged thirty-two, with closed Pupils, after having been above five years a Patient of the Oculist before referred to, with- out experiencing the least benefit, has had an artificial Pupil formed, by which he is enabled to see the most minute objects with distinctness; his other Eye has been since operated on, and promises to be equally successful.