A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders; to which is added, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague, J. R. Farre. The whole illustrated by colour engravings.

  • Saunders, John Cunningham, 1773-1810.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders; to which is added, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague, J. R. Farre. The whole illustrated by colour engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that they afford, are not surpassed by any similar establishment. In this great school he applied himself to anatomy with the assiduity of one emulous of professional distinction; and so rapid was his progress in the acquirement of it, that at the end of two years the important appointment of Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. Thomas’s was conferred on him by the Teachers of Anatomy and Surgery at that Hospital. It is the strongest proof of his merit that Mr. Astley Cooper, on being called to the chair, elected him to the very office which he himself had recently filled. From this period he resided with Mr. Cooper for seve- ral years, and as a dresser under him, finished his surgical education. He continued to discharge the duties of his office with great advantage to the ana- tomical classes until the spring of 1801, when he resigned it, and went into the country: but in the autumn of the same year he was