Brief history of ophthalmic surgery in Great Britain, during the present century / by James Billet.

  • Billet, James.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Brief history of ophthalmic surgery in Great Britain, during the present century / by James Billet. 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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    hastened to the market to purchase some eyes tor Dissection, from which hour I have never ceased to delight in this branch of Surgery, which induces me to av<ow perhaps with more zeal than taste, that I have more pleasure in examining a room full of—Eye Ca^es, than a Gallery of Paintings. Mr. Hill had two Pupils, named Saunders and Adams. The former was a scientific, successful, and indefatigable person, entitled to immense reward, yet lived and died in poverty. The latter, afterwards Sir William Adams, also earned a high reputation as an Operator, acquired a large fortune, speculated, lost it all, and died in obscurity. These two gentlemen settled in London immediately on quitting Barnstaple, and not long after insti- tuted the § Eye Infirmary with extraordinary success, in Charter-house Square, and were followed most ably by Mr. Travers, my old master there, and Dr. Farre. From this School there issued a host of Pupils full of zeal, enterprize, and laudable ambition, by whose efforts Eye Infirmaries sprang up in many places too numerous to be § Note: The Eye Infirmary in Charter-house Square inconse- quence of its increasing prosperity ; was removed under Royal Patronage to Moor Fields, where it is become a Magnificent Institution, well officered and wisely adapted.