Practical Observations on Ectropium or Eversion of the Eyelids, with the Description of a new Operation for the Cure of that Disease; On the Modes of Forming an Artificial Pupil; . Cure . of Cataract.

Adams, Sir Williams (Rawson)

Date d'édition : 1814

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And the description of a series of New and Improved Operations for the Cure of the Different Species of Cataract. - London, , J.Callow, 1814, 8°, XVI, 252 pp., 3 handcolr. Tafeln, Halbledereinband der Zeit; Rücken erneuert. The second Edition! Sir William Adams (1783-1827), was born at Morwenstow in Cornwall, a pupil of John Cunningham Saunders and founder of Exeter's West of England Eye Infirmary and was a surgeon there. Between 1807 to 1810 he split his time between Exeter and Bath, before returning to London in 1810. He was awarded a knighthood in 1814 for his controversial claim to cure the Egyptian Ophthalmia which was currently devastating British soldiers. He became surgeon and oculist to the Prince Regent and the dukes of Kent and Sussex. Two years before his death he changed his name to his wife's maiden name - Rawson, and was so known also as Sir William Rawson after 1825. In this "highly praised" book, his first published work (1812), Adams described a method of treating eversion of the eyelids by the removal of an angular part of the lid. In the introduction Adams states that the operation of an ectropion was before him neither described nor performed. Philip von Walther accepts this operation without reservations in his textbook of ophthalmology. He himself performed it on a number of cases and the wound healed always without any purulent infection. Fr. Jaeger and Rosas also used this method successfully. W. Cermak, on the other hand, is of the opinion that after the operation of Adams the wound can easily gape; Hermann Kuhnt improved the procedure by excising only the tarsus and leaving the anterior layer intact. The predecessor of this operation is Anyllus, the most famous surgeon of the 2nd century A.D.; nearly 1700 years ago he operated just like Kuhnt in our days. . I do not want to maintain that Adams knew this description by Aetius. Adam's new operation for forming an artificial pupil, however, was simply a revival of the procedures employed by Cheselden and Sharpe. Originally the operation of iridectomy was undertaken for the purely optical purpose of forming an artificial pupil rather than as the curative measure it was to become in the hands of Beer and von Graefe. Middlemore declared in 1835 that Adams comments about the ectropion and the reforming of a pupil largely original, ingenious and practical and represents them for the future as an important part of the advances in these areas. - cf. Hirschberg Becker Col. No. 4; AmEncOph I:p.92; BOA I: p.2; Hirschberg 630; Wellcome II:14; Zeis, No. 921 (Blepharoplastik). N° de réf. du vendeur 42736

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Titre : Practical Observations on Ectropium or ...

Date d'édition : 1814