PLAN OF A PRACTICAL SCHOOL, FOU TEACHING OPHTHALMIC 

 SURGERY. 



SIR WILLIAM ADAMS having had the honour to be nominated by HisMajea^ 

 tv's Governrafnt to superintend the Institution appropriated to the reception 

 of the Blind Pensioners belonging to the Army, Navy, and Artillery, has felt it a 

 duty to lav open to the Profession at large, his improved modes of treating tUe.se 

 Patients.— With this view he published, in the beginning of March 1818, a general 

 invitation to the Profession, to witness his operations and practice upon these Pen- 

 sioners; which invitation has been answered by the attendance of several hundreds 

 of Professional.Gentlemen, both Civil and Military. — During the same period SlR 

 Wm. Adams has, from time to time, delivered short courses of Clinical Lectures, in 

 which, after describing the'operations and modes of practice hitherto employed ia 

 the treatment of the Diseases under consideration, he has pointed out their defects, 

 and explained by what means tltese defects might be obviated. — On fixed days he 

 has pci/oriDed his operations in presence of the Professional visitors, exhibited tp 

 them his modes of treatment, and upon every occaiion has particularly directed 

 their attention to the results. Those results arc now before the Public. — This mode 

 of procecdini; having obtained the approbation of those who attended at the Go- 

 vernment Hospital, and having received numerous applications from the PupilSf 

 Sir Wm. Adams now proposes to form a regular School for teaching Ophthalmic 

 Surgery. — The Government Establishment of itself, however, being insufficient for 

 this purpose, (the Cases of the Pensioners being almost exclusively of the Chronic 

 kind,) a Dispensary, in its vicinity, for the admission of the Poor m Civil life, will 

 be immediately established, by wliich ample opportunity will be aftbrded of show- 

 ing the various Acute forms of Disease. 



To render the School complete, Sir Wm. AdamS further proposes to deliver 

 Lectures Annuatiy, on the Theory and Treatment of all the important Diseases of 

 the Eye, in which it will be his particalar care, whenever a practice differing from 

 the usual routine is recommended, to refer all the points of difference to the test 

 of practical effects, produced under the inspection of the Pupils. — Thus the Pupil 

 will be afforded a Clinical course of instruction; added to which he will witness a 

 larger share of operative Practice than in any other Institution of the kind in this, 

 or prohaMy any other Country; it being expected that upwards of two thousand 

 Men already pensioned, (the majority of whom require operations,) will undergo 

 treatment in the Governn)ent Hospital, independently of the important cases which, 

 may apply for relief at the Dispensary. 



1st. The Institution about to be established for the reception and treatment 

 of the Poor in Civil life, will, from its local situation, be called the Marylfbone 

 Dispensary for Curing Diseases of tlic Eye. — Sdly. The Poor will receive Advice 

 and Medicines, two Days in each Week, viz. on Monday and Friday Mornings, 

 from Ten to Twelve o'Clock. — Sdly. Gentlemen who enter as Pupils to the Dis- 



fiensary, will he permitted to witness the Practice and Operations in the Hospital, 

 uundcd by Government, for the treatment of the Blincl Pensioners. — 4thly. All 

 important Operations will be performed at the Ophthalmic Hospital on Friday 

 Moniiiios, from Nine to Ten o'clock.— 5thly. All Medical Officers belonging to 

 the three brnnches of the Public Service, will be adnnttcd to attend the Practice of 

 both Insiiiutiuns gratis, upon producing an official reconmiendation from the 

 Heads of their respective Departments. Tliis recommcirJation should be inclosed 

 to Sir Wm. Adams, and left witli the resident Surgeon of the Government Hospi- 

 tal, situate near the Jlcuent's Pai'k. 



Terms of Attendance on. the Practice. — Three Mon'hs, 6A 6s. — Six Months, 

 10/. 10s.— Twelve Months, 15/. 15s.— Perpetual, 21/. 



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