Background
He was born at Morwenstow in Cornwall.
He was born at Morwenstow in Cornwall.
John Nash had built the Ophthalmic Hospital for him on Albany Street, London. Foreign several years Adams gave his services free to soldiers whose eyesight had been affected in the military campaigns in Egypt. The hospital was closed in 1822.
William Adams was a pupil of John Cunningham Saunders.
He was one of the central figures in the controversy which raged between 1806 and 1820 over the treatment of Egyptian ophthalmia. Adams assumed his wife"s family name and was known as Sir William Rawson after 1825.