A critical enquiry into the ancient and modern manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot, of Salisbury-Street; one of the Company of Surgeons in London, and privileged practitioner from the College at St. Petersburgh.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
[1780?]
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the ancient and modern manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot, of Salisbury-Street; one of the Company of Surgeons in London, and privileged practitioner from the College at St. Petersburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. T THINK myfelf obliged to the Public for the confidence and encouragement they have beftowed on me, iince I made them a tender of my fervices in the former edition of my critical enquiry into the nature and cure of Urethral complaints; by which I am flattered that a fteady and diligent perfeverance to any particular object in any profeffion, will meet with a due return ; and they judge wifely who have faid, that to arrive to a perfect knowledge of any fingle branch in fcience, is of more ufe to fociety than a general fmattering in the whole. Not that I wim the profeffion mould be fubdivided ; but I affert that it is com- mendable in any one, where he finds a defect and obfcurity in a part of any one branch, there to employ his whole force of attention, and to fupply the deficiency by minute appli- cation and obfervation. This will be a means of encreafing the power and importance of the whole. Surgery has undergone many revolu- tions ; but notwithstanding the vaif ftride to perfection that has been made in it within thefe fifty years, there are many inftances where the profefTor can only be a companionate fpec- tator of an incurable cafe, his knowledge but ferves him to draw the melancholy conclufion that fo far can he go, but no farther. Here is the inroad by which ignorant pretenders creep into a community. They make their attack upon the minds of the incurables, the credulous, and the defponding, and like leeches, never quit their hold until they have drained the con- ftitution with the purfe. It is aftonifhin* to me how men in their fenfes can apply to fuch ] have they a greater claim to fcience or litera- A . turc