A letter ... to ... the directors of Greenwich Hospital, containing an exposition of measures pursued by the Medical Officers of the London Eye Infirmary, and by the medical officers of the Army Medical Board, in order to prevent the execution of plans to eradicate ... the Egyptian ophthalmia / [Walter Adams].

  • Adams, Walter, Sir.
Date:
1817
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Credit: A letter ... to ... the directors of Greenwich Hospital, containing an exposition of measures pursued by the Medical Officers of the London Eye Infirmary, and by the medical officers of the Army Medical Board, in order to prevent the execution of plans to eradicate ... the Egyptian ophthalmia / [Walter Adams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He thus clearly abandoned those very grounds on which himself and his friends (without appealing to the sense of the General Committee of Governors) had founded their right to withdraw her annuity. Any further discussion of the subject, after this assertion, could not be agreeable to the adversaries of Mrs. Saunders, and the previous question being moved, a majority of hands broke up the meeting *. 1 shall not further enter into the question of the right of Mrs. Saunders to marry a second time. It is apparent she possessed that right, and however much it is to be regretted that she should have so exercised it, it is, nevertheless, equally apparent, that her doing so, cannot warrant the cruel severity and injustice which has since been shewn her by “ the friends and colleagues of her late husband*’ who affected to feel such a tender interest in her welfare, when they com- menced their attacks upon me, although she had, at this period been wholly deserted by them for two years, and * It can be no matter of surprise, that there should have been a majority at this meeting in favour of the six Committee Gentlemen. One of them, to my own certain knowledge, went about canvassing the Governors of the infirmary, to attend the Meeting, (which had been convened to consider Mrs. Saunders’s appeal,) to vote against her claims, urging the same arguments which the head of the Com- mittee was afterwards driven to the ?iecessity of abandoning. One of my patients, upon whose veracity I can rely, informed me, he was so canvassed by a zealous, and; at all times, obedient instrument to the wishes of the medical officers of the London Eye Infirmary. This same gentleman was pre- vailed upon to write a note to Mrs. Colkett (Mrs. Saunders) two years since, immediately after the attacks made upon me from the London Eye Infirmary and when their authors expected, from my Letter to Doctor Farre, (in which I threatened to expose his conduct to Mrs. Saunders,) that I should make a reply to them. Both Mr. and Mrs. Colkett informed me, that it was intimated in this note, if she withheld from me any papers for which I applied, the infirmary might do something for her. This is another instance to what purposes this infirmary bas been applied.