Practical inquiry into the causes of the frequent failure of the operations of depression, and of the extraction of the cataract, as usually performed : with the description of a series of new and improved operations, by the practice of which, most of the causes of failure may be avoided, illustrated by tables of the comparative success of the new and old modes of practice / by Sir William Adams.

  • Adams, William, Sir, 1783-1827.
Date:
1817
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    especially those who undertake to teach others. Although impressed most strongly with the sentiments of respect I have always enter- tained, for the eminent talents of my late friend and preceptor, Mr. Saunders, and gratefully sensible of the valuable professional informa- tion which he afforded me, I cannot consent to sacrifice my own judgment and expe- rience, by unqualified assent to the ac- curacy of all his opinions. In the following publication I have confined myself to the consideration of the operation of Conradi just alluded to, the imperfections of which I have particularly felt it a duty to point out, in order to guard the profession against the specious encomiums which have been re- cently passed upon it, and which otherwise might continue, alike to mislead the inexpe- rienced operator, and the pubUc. Had the valuable life of Mr. Saunders been spared, I am persuaded he would have very soon discovered the demerits and ob- jections attendant on this operation, and, as his candour was equal to his judgment, that he would have promptly abandoned it,