Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, on several of the pensioners belonging thereto : for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practised by Mr. Adams, for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia.

  • Royal Hospital for Seamen (Greenwich)
Date:
1814
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Credit: Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, on several of the pensioners belonging thereto : for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practised by Mr. Adams, for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iv assistance, and to report to the Directors the progress and result. A House was accordingly taken in Air-street, Piccadilly, for the accommodation of the Pensioners, and the convenience of the Oculist; but being found, in many respects, unsuitable, another was qfterwards hired in Lisle- street, Leicester-square, every way adapted to the comfort of the Patients. It appearing, by the Reports of the Medical Oncers of the Hospital, that the operations performed on the Blind Pensioners by Mr. Adams had been attended with great suc- cess, the Directors were desirous of viewing the men, and for that purpose convened a special meeting, at which the Pensioners, as toell those who had been under the care of former Oculists, as the Patients of Mr. Adams, were exa-r mined and individually interrogated; and as the effect of the operations performed by the latter, as stated in the Re- ports of the Physician, Surgeon, and Apothecary, was found to be accurately detailed, the Directors have con- sidered it to be their duty to give publicity to the Official Reports and Proceedings on a subject so interesting tq humanity.