A dressing for L**d T**r**w / prepared by a surgeon.

  • Birch, John, 1745?-1815.
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A dressing for L**d T**r**w / prepared by a surgeon. 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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    quickfands in the Archipelago of human life, befides thofe which environ the ifland of Calypfo; but it feems your Lordfhip has not been without concujfums in your voyage, or you would not brag your efcape. Confidering then that you have paffed the gulph, and are now landed fafe on the fhores of decrepitude3 it is neither a fpecimen of your fenfe, or your gratitude, to confifcate the property of the pilots who preferved you from mipwreck.^—You are neither too old nor too virtuous to have a {lone in your bladder, or a cancer in yourreclum, and fhould fuch a misfortune befal you in your old age, you muft not expect that the men who live at the fio;ti of the red ras:, will be verv lenient Gpe7~ators; for the Gnly perfons who could ex- tricate you from fuch a dilemma, are the men whom mod you have ottended. Bur per- haps you would confuk your family r- geon the farrier: to whom in gratitude for C 2 your