Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Adams, William
ADAMS, William, F.R.C.S., was born in London February 1, 1820; his father practised as a surgeon in Finsbury Square. He was educated at Mr. W. Simpson's, Hackney; and afterwards at King's College, London. He was appointed in 1842 Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital; in 1851, assistant surgeon; and in 1857 surgeon to the Royal Orthopædic Hospital; in 1854 lecturer on surgery at the Grosvenor Place School of Medicine; in 1855 surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital; and in 1874 surgeon to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. Mr. Adams was elected vice-president of the Pathological Society of London in 1867; president of the Harveian Society of London in 1873; and president of the Medical Society of London in 1876. He is author of "A Sketch of the Principles and Practice of Subcutaneous Surgery," 1857; "On the Reparative Process in Human Tendons after Division," 1860; "Lectures on Pathology and Treatment of Lateral Curvature of the Spine," 1865; "On the Pathology and Treatment of Club-foot," 1866 (being the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons for 1864); "Subcutaneous Division of the Neck of the Thigh-Bone, for Bony Anchylosis of the Hip-Joint," 1871; and "On the Treatment of Dupuytren's Contraction of the Fingers; and on the Obliteration of Depressed Cicatrices by Subcutaneous Operation," 1879.