Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston.

  • Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah), -1786
Date:
1789
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Credit: Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3° the author the honour to rank him among the moft celebrated writers in me* dicine. Guido de Cauliaco, who wrote after him in the fame century, was of a contrary opinion, and his expreffions about this book are fomewhat remarkable. 46 Ultimo infur rexit una fatua Rofa Anglic ana qute tnihi miff a 6; fuit, ct vifa, credidi in ea invenire odorem fuavitatis, et inveni fabulas IdiJ- pani, Gilberti, et TfljeoaoriciA Although this cenfure of Guido’s might in fome refpeCfs be juft enough, as it muft be confeffed that our coun- tryman was little more than an Empiric, yet he was certainly an Empiric of the better fort, and perhaps only profeffed being fuch from pecuniary motives, for he undoubtedly was confidered in his time as a man of learn- ing, and a judicious practitioner. John, however, was a man of that kind to whom nothing that looked like the profeftion came amifs.—He was literally and truly one of thofe perfons who, according to an elegant metaphor much ufed among us atprefent, fought both horfe and foot. If a patient was afflicted with the ftone, John was the man who would attempt to diffolve it. For Epileptic Fits, he had an anodyne necklace, and, for the moft violent paroxifm of the Gout, an infallible cataplafm. He declares himfelf to have been a very dextrous bone-fetter, and, upon occafion, would extraft a rotten tooth.. He was very affiduous in invent- ing lotions for preierving the ladies* complexions, would even be com* plaifant enough to cut their corns, and as for thofe troublefome infe&s which now and then infeft a gentleman’s head, no man had a more effec- tual, and lefs offenfive, method of deftroying them* Such was our countryman John of Gaddesden, upon whofe hiftory 1 have been perhaps more particular than he deferved, not only becaufe he was one of the firft Englifh furgeons, but alfo becaufe he was the firft ever employed at Court, for before that time, all the phyficians and furgeons belonging to the Royal Famity had been foreigners. Not long after John of Gaddesden, John Ardern, a furgeon, co- temporary with Guido de Cauliaco, made a confiderable figure in this country. He left behind him a large volume of phyfic which ftili exifts among us in manufcript. It is rather furprifing that this book fhould