A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders; to which is 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. The whole illustrated by colour engravings.

  • Saunders, John Cunningham, 1773-1810.
Date:
1811
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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 is 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. The whole illustrated by colour engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    “ TO THE COMMITTEE.4' “ Gentlemen^ “ AS you have resolved to submit this Charity in a regular form to the notice of the public, it will not be foreign to the de- sign, if I should revert to the circumstances which attended its origin.—On the 1st of October, 1804, I published a Proposal for instituting a Dispensary for the relief of the poor, afflicted with Diseases of the Eye and the Ear. This Proposal was sanctioned by the testimonials of the Physicians and Surgeons of St. Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospi- tals, where I had then been engaged in professional studies ten years, during eight of which I had acted as the Teacher of Prac- tical Anatomy. The plan was immediately encouraged—this Charity was instituted un- der the name of the London Dispensary f This letter was published by the Committee in their Report of the Progress of the Charity for the year ISOS.