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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    powei) the various stigmas which are attempted to be tixed upon my moral and professional character. Many ot them think I have delayed that too long, which I do reluctantly at last. I had flattered my- self, that attacks which are not founded in truth must die awa\ ; and that falsehood would grow weary of its efforts; but envy and jealousy, particularly when involved with the more sordid interests, sel- dom, I fear, cease, till they have effected the ruin of their object, or till they have roused the power they strive to overthrow, into an exertion that at length crushes them. Those falsehoods should, indeed, have been strangled in their birth, and I ought to blame myself for having permitted them to grow into the importance which they assume: but I yielded my indignant feelings to the judgment of a much- esteemed friend, whose advice, on all former occa- sions, experience had taught me to respect. I have now however found, and I ought to have known it before, that we live in a world which is the daily dupe of its own credulity, where persevering falsehood is too often taken for truth, whose garb it assumes; but I trust that the following pages will expose the gross and violent deviations from it, of which I charge those w ho have accused me. I may appear to be bold in my pretensions ; but I have no other courage than that which conscious rectitude inspires, nor any confidence, but in the superior arms I possess to encounter my enemies. Their charges against me have been disseminated everywhere and by every means ; but their refutation is at hand; I only ask the calm and candid attention of those who know me, and who know them. I am