A Treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders, to which are added a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague, J.R. Farre.

  • Saunders, John Cunningham, 1773-1810.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A Treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders, to which are added a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague, J.R. Farre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    ;'W% IX ment of what he had already done, and what he intended to do, with the facts and mate- rials which he had collected together, it is not likely, we think, that his merit and originality will be disputed any longer The Editor replied in February, 1814, to the observations of Mr. Wardrop, which had appeared in that journal of the pre- ceding month. Aware that letters of this description, uninteresting except to the par- ties whose feelings are aggrieved, are in- jurious to medical journals, he is less surprized that his reply has not been pub- lished, than that gentlemen, who, in their public capacity, had already passed a judg- ment most honourable to the memory of Mr. Saunders, should not have availed themselves of the first opportunity to notice and refute insinuations against him, which at a subsequent period they had inadver- tently admitted into their journal. It re- mained for the Editor to insert the few re- marks which the subject required, either in some other periodical work, or to publish them in the second edition of the Author's treatise. He has preferred' the latter, as a more respectful tribute to the memory of his friend. In the brief account of the au- «T** *