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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    without acknowledging that a great degree of credit is due to you, not only for your improvements on the late Mr. Saunders’s discoveries, but for your inde- fatigable and gratuitous exertions, in so widely extending the benefits resulting from them to society. Believe me to be, Dear Sir, very truly your’s, ROBERT RUSSELL, Ti easurer to the Exeter Eye frifirmary, This letter requires no comments; it speaks for it- self. In compliance with Mr. Russell’s suggestions, I did not delay in dispatching a letter to Mr. Saunders, after it had been favoured with the entire approbation of Mr. Johnston, an intimate friend of Mr. Saunders, and who had been introduced to me by a letter from that Gentleman a few' days only previous to the com- mencement of this correspondence. After stating, in this letter, the circumstances as related by Mr. Russell, 1 proceeded in the following manner:— Feeling how much I am indebted to you for the professional information, which I possess, I leave the business wholly to you. Write to me, and say how I am to act; in whose name it is to be brought forward; aud in what manner,” &c. In the answer which I received from Mr. Saunders, I was equally surprised and mortified on observing the following passage:—, Your views can only be the enhancement of your own professional character, whilst mine you neglect, even when your notions originated from the observations made on the case of Mr. Fidkins. To this most unw arranted and unjustifiable remark, (for in such terms the duty 1 owfe to myself obliges me to describe it,) I transmitted the following answer by the return of the post:— I declare, most solemnly, I never had an idea of assuming to myself any further credit than having improved the method of treating the disease. What I meant by asking whether it should appear in you name or mine was, wlr thcr you had any strong cases to recommend the practice? or whether you could bring it