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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33708	Novum lumen chirurgicum vindicatum, or, The new light of chirurgery vindicated from the many unjust aspersions of some unknown calumniators : with the addition of some few experiments made this winter in England / by Jo. Colbatch ...	Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.; Baker, Robert, Chirurgeon.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5001; ESTC R35652	10,339	64

notorious untruth The which when it shall come to their knowledg I suppose he will have sufficient cause to repent of As for what is said by them concerning the Dogs wounded before the Right Honourable the Lord Cuts and the Soldier that was wounded upon Tower-Hill if I had time I could sufficiently make appear the Truth of every tittle I have said in my Preface upon that Subject and whoever will give himself the trouble of going to Mr. Sterkey Surgeon upon Little Tower-Hill he will satisfy them that the man's case was most deplorable and quite contrary to what they relate They say I have deserved ill of most Surgeons which is no otherwise true than if to be Civil and shew Respect in the highest degree be to deserve ill For I defy any one of that Fraternity to say that I ever once denied them to shew what Experiments they desired and to let them see my Patients dressed upon all occasions And since Mr. Cooper is by them trumped up in relation to the Experiments made at St. Batholomew's Hospital I shall represent that whole Business to the World and then leave it to any impartial Person to judge whether I was fairly dealt with or not Having made some Experiments before Mr. Cooper c. upon a Dog first of all making an Aperture in his Abdomen then taking out one of his Small Guts and wounding it of which he was in three or four days well Then we cut off one of his hinder Legs as close as possibly we could to his Body and immediately stopped the Flux of Blood without any hard Bandage to the great satisfaction of all the Bystanders I was then desired by one of the Master-Surgeons of the Hospital to try my Medicines upon two Persons who were to have the one a Leg and the other an Arm cut off which I readily granted The Day before these Operations were to be performed I receiv'd a Letter from the said Master-Surgeon of the Hospital requesting me that I would come alone and bring no one with me that a Croud might be avoided and his Brethren not displeased which I leave to any ones Judgment whether it did not look as if there were some design and as the Sequel will demonstrate Accordingly I went to the Hospital with no one with me but my Boy of about Fourteen years of Age. But to my great surprize when I came there I found at least Twenty of their Fraternity However knowing the justice of my Cause I staid to perform the Business I came about I confess my Powder was two or three times applied before the Fluxes of Blood were stopp'd which was occasion'd only by the irregular Application of it by one of themselves But after the Fluxes were stopp'd there was no other than mere retentive Bandage used which is more than what any of them can pretend to with any of their most celebrated Medicines After our Patients were dressed up and laid to Bed we went all to the Tavern where every one seemed to express very great satisfaction in what had been done On the Morrow Morning being at Tom's Coffee-house in St. Martins Lane with one Mr. Clarke I met with a certain Physitian who told me that all was undone for that one of the People had Bled afresh and if Mr. Bernard had not been at hand to have taken off mine and applied his own Medicines he had Bled to Death The truth of which I had no reason to believe having sent one the Night before and another that Morning to make strict enquiry how they both did who brought me word that they were very well but mentioned nothing of any such Accident However that I might be satisfied exactly in the truth of the said Report I immediately went to the said Hospital taking Mr. Clarke with me In our way we met Mr. Blackstone Apothecary to the Hospital who told me the same Story the Physitian had done When we came to the Bed where the Man lay whom they said had Bled again before I was capable of speaking to him he rose up in his Bed and prayed for me most heartily telling me that he believed that no Man whoever had an Arm cut off was so well as he was upon which I asked him whether he had not Bled again after I left him He reaching out his Stump to me did solemnly protest that those very dressings were the same that had been put on in my presence and that they had never in the least been touched from the time I saw him I likewise asked him how he had been for Pain To which he replied That for four or five Hours after the Amputation he had some Pains occasioned by an Inflamation just above the Stump but that he had slept very well all Night and was then perfectly at ease We afterwards went up to the Boy who told us the same that the Man had done saying he was perfectly at ease and had slept well all Night Some other Surgeons having said the same thing in relation to the Man's bleeding I desired Mr. Colbatch a Stationer in Cornhill and Mr. Fisher a Surgeon in Aldersgate-street to go to the Hospital and they being Strangers the People would relate the whole truth to them but instead of either of them owning that they had Bled they declared they were infinitely obliged to the Person who made the new Experiment upon them for that they were well to admiration These Operations were performed to the best of my remembrance on a Tuesday and the Friday following I was desired to be again at the same place to perform the same Operation upon another Person but finding this ill usuage I sent Mr. Baker a Surgeon in Suffolk-street who was wont to make my Experiments for me with some other Friends to be as Witnesses and desired by Letter that Mr. Baker might make the Application of my Medicines but there being so many about six Persons witnesses of what might be done they refused to let Mr. Baker do it and deferred it to another time I likewise in the same Letter requested that I might have notice given me when the two before mentioned should be opened that I might be present to see how the Stumps looked which every body will own was but fair But to be short I was put off from time to time and never was admitted to see them at all Now if what I have said upon this Subject does not argue a Combination I do not know what can and for the truth of all when I have leisure I will have it sufficiently attested before a Magistrate nay the Man and Boy tho reported to be Dead will both assist me in the confirming the truth of this my Relation As for the Case of poor Capt. Rogers I know nothing of it but was told by one Capt. _____ of Sir James Lesley's Regiment at Mr. Man's Coffee-house before Mr. Baker and others that Capt. Rogers being opened after he was Dead his Heart was found to