A letter to the right honourable and honourable the directors of Greenwich Hospital, containing an exposure of the measures resorted to by the medical officers of the London Eye Infirmary, for the purpose of retarding the adoption and execution of plans for the extermination of the Egyptian ophthalmia, from the army and from the kingdom / submitted for the approval of government by Sir William Adams.

  • Adams, William, Sir, 1783-1827.
Date:
1817
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Credit: A letter to the right honourable and honourable the directors of Greenwich Hospital, containing an exposure of the measures resorted to by the medical officers of the London Eye Infirmary, for the purpose of retarding the adoption and execution of plans for the extermination of the Egyptian ophthalmia, from the army and from the kingdom / submitted for the approval of government by Sir William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    must die away ; 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 themselves. 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 haveknown 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 trusi that the following pages will expose the dis- graceful and violent deviations from it, of which I charge those who 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 confi- dence, but in the superior arms I possess to encounter my enemies. Their charges against me have been disseminated every where, 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 have heard of them. I am well assured, mv Lords and Gentlemen, that such attention I shall receive from you ; but I claim it as a rights from those whose minds have been poisoned by the publications of my adversaries, to read this letter. . Their publications have accused me of robbing the