Volume 1

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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    countries, and being regular in giving lectures, and making demonftrations in anatomy and fur- very, they diftinguifhed themfelves, and were de- fervedly extolled throughout Europe: and from every part of it, furgeons ufed to refort to Paris, to complete their education, which now can no longer claim the fuperiority to London, only in — refpect to the Royal Academy of Surgery, a late “inftitution, truly worthy of a great prince, having | the general good of his people, and the glory of his country at heart—Were the propriety and utility of fuch an eftablifhment reprefented, in it’s true light, to his moft -auguft majefty, the king of Great-Britain, it is highly probable he would be gracioufly pleafed, to give all due en- couragement and fanction, to fuch a beneficial foundation in his metropolis. In the foreign univerfities, the profeffors of | phyfic generally adopted furgery; and now, at the famous univerfity of Edinburgh, and others, there are profeflorfhips appropriated to furgery and anatomy conjointly. Marianus Sanéius, a celebrated lithotomift, was a doctor of Padua. Marcus Aurelius Severinus, Vi: ig 0, Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Cefar Magatus, Marchetti, and many other practical furgeons, that might be enume-. rated, were doétors of phyfic. Monf. Le Cat at Rouen,