Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / [John Vetch].

  • Vetch, John, 1783-1835.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / [John Vetch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    during which he continued to lose by frequent relapses, the progress gained in the intervals; when admitted he laboured under a third attack of acute purulent Ophthalmia, and was saved from the imminent hazard of losing his right eye, by the treatment immediately resorted to. But a more important error in the narrative of this case remains to be noticed. At the time this man was selected by Sir Wm. Adams, it ap¬ pears by the evidence of the official report made to the Medical Board of the state of his eyes, as well as by that of a memorandum in the hand¬ writing of Sir Wm. that he was selected with the susceptibility of recovery in both eyes; and indeed, it is not to be supposed that Sir Wm. Adams would have made choice of a case which was otherwise. This man, however, is in the final return stated by Sir Wm. Adams to have irrecoverably lost” the left eye, and which he asserts was lost under my care. The registers of the hospital, afford a minute detail of the case, the evidence from which is, that the left eye was the best of the two: Sir Wm. Adams, in his own hand writing, states the case as one of opaque cornea, with diseased palpebral lin¬ ings, and notices an inversion of the upper eye-lid, but no mention is made of the left eye