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

  • John Vetch
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / [John Vetch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In a letter addressed bv Sir ffm. Adams to the Governors of Greenwich Hospital, the nature and the value of his discoveries are at last detailed. However averse I am to carry the discussion of such a subject beyond the strict limits of professional arbitration, the direct re¬ ference made in that letter, to my name and practice, induce me to take this general notice of the pretensions he has advanced, and which appear to come under three distinct heads. § With respect to Sir Wm. Adams's treatment* in the commencement of the disease, by violent vomiting, I shall say but little, convinced as I am, that even he himself, should he ever see a case of real Egyptian Ophthalmia, in its violent and purulent stage, will not venture to place his principal trust in such a remedy. On this head he has manifestly founded his conclusions relative to the treatment of the pu¬ rulent Ophthalmia, which prevailed in the army, from the catarrhal form of disease, which chiefly shows itself among children, when much crowd¬ ed together, and which, although an infectious disease, is specifically different from the one with which I have had to combat; or at the most, his experience of the purulent disease in