220 Notices respecting New Books. 
<¢ Edward Turner had, during six months that he was a patient 
of the London Eye Infirmary, undergone ihirteen operations ; 
nevertheless, he obtained but very little benefit in one eye, and 
none in the other: Mr. Adams has cured both by one operation 
on each. 
‘* Hartgill had been blind for near twenty years, and was con- 
sidered by every oculist of eminence in London to labour under 
Gutta Serena. Mr. Adams has successfully operated on him, 
and he is now capable of reading the smallest print. 
‘“‘ Bray, aged seventy-nine years, is cured of cataract in both 
eyes, and was capable, in the space of a fortnight, of seeing the 
minutest objects. 
“Douglas, aged thirty-two, with closed pupils, after having 
been above five years a patient of the oculist before referred to, 
without experiencing the least benefit, has had an artificial pupil 
formed, by which he is enabled so see the most minute objects 
with distinctness ; his other eye has been since operated on, and 
promises to be equally successful. 
‘*T cannot, in justice to Mr. Adams, conclude this Report, 
without expressing to you how greatly I am indebted to his li- 
berality and disinterestedness in communicating to me much va- 
luabie information and instruction relating to diseases of the eye, 
which I trust will eventually be attended with considerable ad- 
vantage to that class of objects, the afflicted blind, who constitute 
no small proportion of the invalids admitted into this noble 
asylum. 
‘Subsequently Mr. M‘Langhlin reported that in consequence 
of the absence of Mr. ae from London, for a few months it 
was requisite to recal the pensioners to the Hospital—*‘ and,” 
this gentleman adds, ‘* I have infinite pleasure in repeating that 
Mr. Adams’s practice and operations upon them have been suc- 
cessful in a most extraordinary degree. Many are perfectly re- 
stored to sight ; and all the others, where there was any reason- 
able prospect of a cure, though as yet necessarily only convale- 
scent, are going on favourably ; and should it be the pleasure of 
the governor and directors to review those that have undergone 
operations, I beg that they may be presented before them, for 
that purpose, at “the next Board at the Royal Hospital.” 
A vote of thanks from the governor and directors sueceeded 
these flattering testimonies; and, latterly, the whole medical 
officers of the Tnstitution made the following communications to 
the Board, which we consider to be so interesting as to require 
no apology for giving at length. 
“ Royal Infirmary, Dec. 27, 1813. 
<¢ Sir,—We inclose herewith, for the information of the Di- 
rectors, separate Reports of the results of the mew and old opera- 
tions 
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