A proper reply to the serjeant surgeons [i.e. J. Ranby and C. Hawkins's] defence of their conduct at Chelsea Hospital [in 'The true account of all the transactions, etc.'] / [Samuel Lee].

  • Lee, Samuel, active 1743-1800.
Date:
1754
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Credit: A proper reply to the serjeant surgeons [i.e. J. Ranby and C. Hawkins's] defence of their conduct at Chelsea Hospital [in 'The true account of all the transactions, etc.'] / [Samuel Lee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were fever ally examin'd by us whofe 'Names are under¬ written ♦, they had every one of them Pruffes on, upon the Re??ioval of which Trujfes all the Ruptures, except Peter Curtis’j, came down. John Ranby, Ccefar Hawkins, D. Middleton, Peter Sain thill, Edward Nourje, Robert Adair, Samuel Sharp, Jofeph Paul, TVilliam Hunter, John Thomas, Alexander Reid, As here appears to be a Surgeon to every Man, it may be expedfed they fhould have been a little more particular in the defcription of their ieveral Cafes, and not by fuch a lumping Certificate exadt an implicit Be¬ lief, in what was intended (if intended for any thing) to furnifh Matter of Conviction ; but as the Myftery of this Examination may, by our Serjeants, be thought of too folemn a Nature to be communicated to vulgar Ears, we fhall be prophane enough to expofe fuch part of it as has come to our Knowledge. i Thus then fay the Men themfelves *, and, as they are not upon Oath, perhaps they may bid fairer for our Serjeants Allowance of their Credibility. Stephen Cow el. Mr. Ranby order’d me to take off my Bandage, and then faid-cc See, this Man is not cured, and he has taken an Oath that he is cured.-One Gentleman then touched me, and Mr.