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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    sation was repeated to the Adjutant-General; and by his especial invitation (conveyed to me by my patient) I called on him at the Horse-Guards; when 1 repeated my former proposal, that a limited number of soldiers, who were blind from this disease, should be placed Under my care, in order that I might prove the effi- cacy of my practice. I then received from him the strongest assurances, of the great importance attached by His Royal High- ness the Commander-in-Chief, to the obtaining a certain, and generally successful mode of cure for the ophthalmia; and that I should experience the utmost liberality, from the department which is more immediately responsible for the health of the army. I am induced particularly to notice these facts, because my proposal, in regard to the cure of the oph- thalmia in the army, has been represented as an act of obtrusive, and indelicate interference on my part, with the official duties of this department. In obeying the invitation of the Adjutant-General, which was unexpected and unsought-for by me, and in my respectful compliance with the Avishes of Ilis Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief thus con- veyed to me, I considered that I should do humanity a kindness, and the state a service. I then, as now, offered my professional services, and experience, to government gratuitously, without any selfish regard to my private interest ; and I had not at that time the remotest idea, that in doing so, I should offer violence to the feelings of that department, Avhose wishes I conceived were in perfect unison with those of the Commander-in-Chief, and of the Adjutant-Ge- neral. I was the more strongly impressed with this