Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOIRS OP THE NOTED MARTIN VAN BUTCHELL, SURGEON, DENTIST, AND PROFESSOR IN THE ART OP CUTTING FISTULAS, &C. &C, When the spirit of impudence assumes too grotesque a figure, it is but right to display it in its own colours; a selection of singular advertise¬ ments forms the principal part of this eccentric Surgeon’s memoirs; his motives for so doing we must leave to the judgment of the public. From his own account of himself, given in a recent publication, the truth of which may be relied on, he was born in Eagle Street, near Red Lion Square, February, 1735: his parents were honest Hollanders, who, at a very early period, placed him as pupil under the late Doctor J« Hunter, F, R. S. With this gentleman he made great progress in anatomy, and his diligence ac-