The London Surgical Home, or, modern surgical psychology : being a popular statement of the operations therein performed by Mr. Isaac Baker Brown / by John Scoffern.

  • Scoffern, J. (John), 1814-1882.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The London Surgical Home, or, modern surgical psychology : being a popular statement of the operations therein performed by Mr. Isaac Baker Brown / by John Scoffern. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    fitting tliat divines should have been amongst the foremost to give practical effect to a precept of psychological surgery first indicated by Christ. It is natural that princes and princesses (God’s own anointed) should be found on the same platform with reverends and right reverends; with parsons and bishops. The London Surgical Home is an unpretending building situated in the Ladbroke Grove, Hotting Hill, or as pretentious people living in the neighbourhood are wont to call the region, Kensington Park. Por some reason not easy to understand, a veil of mystery has been thrown around this beneficent home. It has been my lot to hear jeers, and even imprecations, launched against it. Thus has the custom been from the beginning of time. So surely as philanthropists set about doing a good work, so surely do evil-minded people begin to rail against the work. Generally one may say, that in proportion as an institution is abused, so is the real measure of its utility assured. This proposition is wholly demonstrated in respect to the London Surgical Home. The appreciation in which the London Surgical Home is held may be partly inferred from the comfort, nay, splendour, of the equipages which daily throng it. Carriages may be seen to draw up, and delicate girls descend, accompanied by their parents or nearest guardians; any day pale female forms may be seen to emerge; serene and tranquil. These are the patients who have been subjected to the masterly treatment of Mr. r>aker Brown, a gentleman whom the medical profession honours m hardly a less degree than princes and princesses, parsons and bishops. They go in, those patients, to be operated upon; they come out cured, few but themselves the wiser for what has happened: to so high a pinnacle of excellence is the eliminative surgical method carried in these days. One lady of voluble speech and evil tongue may have had the