Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital.

  • London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    to the prejtidiGe of the public, and particularly to the prejudice of the army. In that imputation, your Committee remark the absence, not only of the tenderness and delicacy due to departed worth and genius, but, also, of the respect and gratitude due to great service and obligation conferred. Your Committee deem it fortunate, that they possess evidencfe, which enables them to place the sub- ject in it's true light. . It is in evidence before your Committee, that Mr. Saunders did not consider it consistent with the strict and honourable rule of profes- sional conduct, which he prescribed to himself, to make any particular or exclusive communi- cation, on the subject of his professional practice, to his Majesty's Government. The ambition which he indulged, was the chaste and honour- able ambition, of becoming, in proper season, the head of a medical school, in which, he should instruct the medical student in all that he knew; and so convey to his Majesty's service, and to every service ; to this country, and to all coun- tries, the benefit of his science and practice. He would not permit himself to approach the heads of his Majesty's service, with a view to pecuniary advantage ; an invitation to that line of conduct having been made and pressed upon hinfi by Mr. Adams, who even ventured to rc