A special report of the General Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye : in which certain pretensions of Sir William Adams, advanced in the official papers published by order of the hon. directors of Greenwich Hospital, lately submitted to a medical committee, appointed by government, and affecting the rights of the Infirmary, and the merits of the late John Cunningham Saunders, Esq. its founder and surgeon, are examined and disproved by the correspondence of Mr. Saunders, and other documents.

  • London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A special report of the General Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye : in which certain pretensions of Sir William Adams, advanced in the official papers published by order of the hon. directors of Greenwich Hospital, lately submitted to a medical committee, appointed by government, and affecting the rights of the Infirmary, and the merits of the late John Cunningham Saunders, Esq. its founder and surgeon, are examined and disproved by the correspondence of Mr. Saunders, and other documents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neral Thewles (the then Commander of the District) to forward the enclosed case, with other proofs of my success, in an official form to you. This, however, peculiar circumstances induced me then to decline. In thus voluntarily coming forward, I must beg to state, that the only motives by which I am actuated, are, in the first place, a desire of communicating highly useful information, and, secondly, an earnest wish to benefit the widow of my much esteemed friend. In these I hope to succeed, should I be granted the opportunity of proving the utility of his discovery, of which I am the only one of his pupils who can speak from practical experience. During the interview with which the Adjutant- General (General Calvert) honoured me two days since, I proposed to him, that a certain number of men, afflicted with this stage of the Ophthalmia, at the York Hospital, whose names are noted to be dismissed, should be sent down to Exeter, in order that I might have the opportunity of demonstrating, beyond the possibility of doubt, the validity of my pretensions- This he was pleased highly to approve; but I have- since learnt, from the Assistant-Surgeon of that estab- lishment, that most of the Ophthalmia patients in that hospital have been discharged as incurable. It has recently happened, that, from the 9th light dragoons, now quartered at Exeter, ten men (comrades of Frost, whose memorial I herewith send) have been dis- charged, as no longer fit for service, in the same state of disease as that which he laboured under when he first applied to me; eight of whom, I am fully con- vinced, admit of being cured by the same means as were employed upon him. I therefore, Sir, venture to