Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ward used large glass globes, or receivers, in which he burned the mixture of sulphur and saltpetre. Afterwards, leaden houses were em- ployed, by others, and this lowered the price of the acid to 8d. the pound. Further improvements have since been made, and the oil of sulphur may now be bought, under the name of oil of vitriol, for 2d. the pound. TRIPOLITAN SURGERY. When the surgeons of Tripoli take off a limb, the stump is dipped into a bowl of hot pitch, which stops the bleeding, without the trouble of tying up of the arteries. A MEDICAL ADVENTURER. The following extract, from the Registers of the College of Physicians, exhibits a curious specimen of Italian speculation, to drain the pockets of the inferior medical practitioners, under pretence of mala praxis. It does not ap- pear that any answer was really given to this bold adventurer. Comitia trimestris, 7 Dec. 1672. “ One Damascenus, an Italian, appeared before the President and College, demanding of them all their power to set up a tribunal and judge of all practisers of physic in and about London.