A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by John Cunningham Saunders ... to which are addded, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by ... J.R. Farre.

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1816
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    Vll the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal for October, 1811, that he had it in view, to claim the merit of suggesting the safety and expediency of operating on Infants, for the cure of Cataract: and this was done in a spirit of hostility to the me- mory of Mr. Saunders, which was wholly unjustifiable. Mr. Gibson, too soon for the profession which his labours had bene- fited, passed into that state which required the last offices of friendship ; and his Bio- grapher, Mr. James Wardrop, thought proper to recall feelings, which had slept with the ashes of his friend. Biography is indeed a useful branch of knowledge, when it simply records examples worthy of imi- tation ; but it is perverted from this noble purpose, when the character of one indivi- dual is unjustly depressed, and used as a foil to augment the lustre of another. The injustice of such a proceeding excites our highest indignation, if the persons have conferred equal benefits on the Public; but especially so, if he that suffers the wrong, has actually done the greater ser- vice. The medical friends of Mr. Saun- ders, were not unconcerned observers of this new attack on his memory, which Mr.