Volume 3

The chirurgical works of Benjamin Gooch, surgeon / [Benjamin Gooch].

  • Gooch, Benjamin, -1780?
Date:
1792
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Credit: The chirurgical works of Benjamin Gooch, surgeon / [Benjamin Gooch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We have examples of illuftrious men, in all ages and countries, from the time of Hippocrates ; and in this nation Sydenham and Huxham have moft diftinguifhed themfelves to excite young gentlemen of the faculty to thefe obfervances, which, with an attentive reading the beft practical books, will prove the moft effectual me- thod of aflifting them in forming their judgments to direct their practice upon various important occafions, for the greater jafety of their patients, as well as for the advancement and fupport of their own reputation, which muft appear objects of the higheft concernment and moft intereft- ing nature that can be offered to their con- fideration *, I have done my beft under the like predicament, when lately confined fome months with a dangerous difeafe, as I had alfo done before. Qui non eft hodie, cras minus aptus erit. * Some eminent and learned phyficians of the paft and prefent age have written upon endemic or popular ? difeafes,