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William Adams (oculist)

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1st issuant out of clouds Proper a cubit arm vested Gules the hand in glove Azure holding an anchor fesswise the flukes towards dexter Or the arms charged (for distinction) with a rose Argent (Rawson) 2nd on a mount Vert an eagle standing reverse way and reguardant wings expanded Proper beak and legs
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Quarterly 1st & 4th per fess Sable and Azure a quadrangular castle with four turrets Argent and in base two bars wavy of the last and (for distinction) a canton Ermine (Rawson) 2nd & 3rd Per fess Azure and Sable on a pale between two mullets in chief Argent a mullet between two crescents of
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Adams assumed his wife's family name in accordance with her mother's wishes, and was known as Sir William Rawson after 1825. He married Jane Eliza Rawson (died 1844), fourth daughter of Colonel George Rawson of Belmont House,
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Practical observations on Ectropium or eversion of the eyelids with a description of the new operation for the cure of that disease
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Adams was one of the central figures in the controversy which raged between 1806 and 1820 over the treatment of Egyptian
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Or holding in the mouth a mullet Sable the sinister claw resting on a crescent reversed Gold (Adams).
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Andrew Freeman. 'Organs and Organists of St. Olave's, Tooley Street, Southwark', in
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in 1807. In 1811 he helped restore some sight to the famous blind organist
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after a series of operations in London and Exeter. He published the book
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Hotel Barcelona (formerly the West of England Eye Infirmary)
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This English biographical article related to medicine is a
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As a young man, he worked for John Hill, a surgeon in
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William Adams (disambiguation)

Morwenstow
Cornwall
ophthalmic
surgeon
Exeter
Infirmary
John Nash
Ophthalmic
Albany Street
London
Egypt
Barnstaple
John Cunningham Saunders
Royal College of Surgeons of England
John Purkis
ophthalmia
Prime Minister
Lord Palmerston
Parliament
knighted
the Prince Regent
British Royal Family
County Wicklow
Armagh
Rawson William Rawson
barrister
John Goddard Richards
Ardamine Estate

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