A reply by Sir William Adams to a recent publication against him, purporting to be the Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary, for Curing Diseases of the Eye.

  • Adams, Sir William, 1783-1827.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A reply by Sir William Adams to a recent publication against him, purporting to be the Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary, for Curing Diseases of the Eye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Infirmary—again the same hostile spirit, whicii appears to have increased in venomous activity, as I have had the good fortune to advance in professional success, has endeavoured to annoy my feelings, and to depreciate my character. But the patronage with which I have been honored by the Directors of Greenwich; Hospital, and by His Majesty's Government, has, it seems, given great umbrage to Doctor Fane, Mr. Travers, and Mr. Battley; and the Circular Letter of the Secretary at War, announcing the establish- ment pf an Ophthalmic Hospital at Chelsea, under my superintendence, has evidently .aggravated that umbrage, because they themselyes sought in vain for the latter patronage. To have obtained this patronage, notwithstanding a tissue of indefatigable slander and insidious opposition, is, indeed, a sin which my calumniators are not likely to forgive. Those individuals who sought to crush my efforts, and to destroy my fame, are mortified by their defeat; but still they seem determined to persevere, and hence I am again under the necessity pf replying to their publication, or perhaps I should speak more correctly, to the production of Doctor Farre, assisted by Mr. Travers ; for these gentlemen are, I am assured, the authors of the publication which has just issued from the press, with the imposing title of the Report of the Committee of the London Eye Infirmary, ** occasioned by the false and calumnious statements con- B