Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich, on several of the pensioners belonging thereto, for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practised by Mr. Adams, for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia.

  • Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Official papers relating to operations performed by order of the directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich, on several of the pensioners belonging thereto, for the purpose of ascertaining the general efficacy of the new modes of treatment practised by Mr. Adams, for the cure of the various species of cataract, and the Egyptian ophthalmia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    2b Apothecary and Surgeon's two Assistants (the Surgeon being absent by indisposition), were called in ; and the Board, with a view of ascertaining the comparative success of the different modes of Prac- tice,in Cases of Cataract and closed Pupil, proceeded to examine the Pensioners on whom operations had been performed by other Oculists of undoubted cha- racter and eminence in their IVactice. It appeared that many of these Pensioners had irrecoverably lost their sight, the Eye being in several instances entirely sunk: and that, except in one instance^ they had not experienced the desired relief. The Pensioners who had been under the care of Mr. Adams were next examined and inter- rogated, and their respective Cases were compared with the Report enclosed in the above-mentioned Letter from the Physician, Surgeon, and Apothecary; and the Board were much gratified by so many instances of the great success which had attended the operations of Mr. Adams. The effect of those operations appeared to be accurately detailed in the Report in question. Mr. Adams then laid before the Board a Letter of this date, stating at considerable length his modes of Practice ; and he also personally ex- plained the nature and effects of the several opera^ tions performed by him for Cataract, and in fortning an Artificial Pupil. In the result the