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The art of surgery; in which is laid down such a general idea of the same, as is founded upon reason, confirmed by practice, and farther illustrated with many singular and rare cases medico-chirurgical ... / [Daniel Turner].

  • Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.
Date:
1741
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Credit: The art of surgery; in which is laid down such a general idea of the same, as is founded upon reason, confirmed by practice, and farther illustrated with many singular and rare cases medico-chirurgical ... / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fame Operation, it furely was an Act of Indifere- tion; but admit they had, if others had fared better, as fometimes happens (I with I could fay often) under the like Attempt by others, and that he believ’d confcientioufly he could ferve him no way elfe, the Enterprize furely was not criminal, in as much as he did what lay in his Power ; ‘and, doubtlefs, as every Operator ought, either direétly to the Patient himfelf, or to zard, as well of the intended Remedy, as of the he has a free Choice to die certainly by the one, or take the Chance, however ftill uncertain, to. efcape by the other. ~ But as to this parcicialan, I think, enough, A farther Support to this Charge is, that you but defignedly practife the Ufe of Tents in Wounds and Ulcers, on Purpofe to protra& your you keep poor Wretches a Year or more under * your Hands, whofe Maladies might be healed up without thofe 7: ents, in a tenth Part of the Time; and by this, itfeems, you maintain your Equipages, and ride about the Streets in your gi/¢ Chariots, that a Man of Probity in the Profeflion is Rara Avis in Terris. Had. this Invective been levelled, againft the Pfeudo-Prattici, fo numerous in this City, cal- Img themfelves Phyficians and Surgeons, but who have no right to be -fo called, this good Man’s Time and Labour had been walt beftow’d; buf when he reflects upon thofe, who, let their Prin- ciples be as they will, it is their Intereft to get as are as much againft this fhameful Practice of Lents