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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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    taken off, which through ignorant Management of fome, calling themfelves Surgeons, and being fo accounted by the People, though efteem’d of no Repute among us, have been brought under this Neceflity to fave Life: Although by the in- judicious Practice by Tents, and other as ignorant Treatment, I have known trifling Accidents be- cothe formidable, ‘as this learned Gentleman ob- ferves, and perhaps a Year’s Work made, of what, if artfully handled, had been healed in few _ Weeks; Though by thefe Means, -I fay, I have feen many People ruin’d and undone, maimed ‘in their Limbs, if not fool’d out of their Lives; yet from Men of the moft abandon’d Principles, exercifing the fame Function, I never was privy to, or acquainted with any thing of this Kind, practis’d dy defign, or for the fake of Lucres And I doubt not, Gentlemen, in: order to take off this Calumny, from every honeft and legal Practitioner of this noble Art, you will join with me in the following Commination. Is there any Man among you who has delayed a Cure out of thefe wicked Views, has kept his Pa- in a Week's Time ? “ | Is there a Man among you who has thruft a Tent into any hollow Wound or Ulcer, with Defign mere- ly to keep the fame from healing, when it was not fome otber way, at leaft as he thought, for his Pa- tient’s Advantage (as may happen) and not his own, or in other Words, when be believed in his Confci- his Patient, might be fuffered fo to be healed up ? Is there a Man among you who-has cut, burnt, or ufed any fevere Remedies to his Patient, whofe Expectation of Cure, be could as fuddenly, and +: . We