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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

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 Physitian LONDON Printed for D. Brown at the Bible and Swan without Temple-Bar 1695. BOOKS Sold by Daniel Brown at the Bible and Swan without Temple-Bar NOvae Hypotheseos ad explicanda Febrium intermittentium symptomata typos excogitatae Hypotyposis Una cum Aetiologio Remediorum speciatim vero de Curatione per Corticem peruvianum Accessit dissertatiuncula de intestinorum motu Peristaltico a Guilielmo Cole M. D. A Physico-Medical Essay concerncerning the late frequency of Apoplexies with a general Method of their Prevention and Cure in a Letter to a Physitian by W. Cole M. D. Epistolae Medicinales variis Occasionibus conscriptae Autore Richardo Carr M.D. Col. Reg. Med. Lond. Socio TO THE HONOURABLE William Blathwayt Esq Secretary of War SIR MY Adversaries having Dedicated a Piece to You wherein they desire Your Patronage of Truth which they pretend to be on their Sides I also being sufficiently satisfied that the greatness of Your Soul is such as not to be amused with Specious Pretensions have presumed also to Dedicate this Piece to You which altho I have not had time to put into any order yet it contains most indisputable Truths I beg not any other Favour of You than if Truth inclines to my side that You will afford me Your Patronage which my own Experience is sufficient to assure me that my Request will be as readily granted as desired I am SIR Your most Obliged and Obedient Servant to Command JO. COLBATCH TO THE READER ON the 18th day of this Instant April there came to my Hands a little Libel set forth by my old Friends the Surgeons At first I thought it would not be worth my spending any time in Writing an Answer to it Till at last I concluded That if I should be altogether Silent till the end of the Campaign they might in my Absence triumph amongst themselves and make the Vnthinking Part of the World believe that I had given up my Cause and yielded all for lost To prevent which I have in the midst of my Multiplicity of Business spent a few Hours in composing the following little Tract The which I must own to be full of many Imperfections yet contains nothing but truth and therefore for Truths sake I doubt not but the Candid Reader will pass over those other Failings that he may meet with The Charges laid against me are very numerous and were they but as true I must of consequence be the most vile Creature alive But I having been used so much to the Scurrility of some of that Fraternity there is nothing but I can bear from them and indeed I should be to blame if I should not be content to give Losers leave to speak And so much the more by reason that their Diana I mean their ill Practices being detected the World will be so wary as to have a Care of them is falling into Disgrace to keep up whose Reputation tho to the great Prejudice of Mankind they will not fail to make their utmost Efforts A drowning Man will lay hold on every Twig To be sure if making a Noise and using ill Language will do any thing towards the Preservation of their sinking Credit that shall not be wanting As I have before said so I repeat it again That both the City of London and the English Army afford a great many Surgeons who are Men of extraordinary Worth from whom I have received many Civilities and instead of being discouraged by them I have been to the utmost of their Powers assisted in carrying on my Designs I have had an occasion once to mention Mr. Bernard's Name the which I could not possibly avoid But I am so far from charging him with any thing that is unfair that there is nothing more For I cannot hear of any one who hath at any time heard him say That the Man at the Hospital bled again after my Powder was applied and had stopt the Flux of Blood Nay I have been informed That he was altogether against the Publishing of that Scandalous Libel telling the Authors that it was in vain to write against Matter of Fact Whether this Relation be true or not I am not certain But this I am sure of that he is a very great Man and the Honour of his Profession And I verily believe he scorns a mean Action I heartily wish I could say the same of Mr. Cooper and others from whom I never deserved ill There was scarce an Experiment I made last Year in Flanders but there were several Officers Spectators so that if I had not performed what I pretended to I must quickly have been detected But I thank God my Success was such that I have gained the good Will of most Officers of the Army whose Words will I suppose go further with all considerate Men than the Scandalous Malicious Reports of some interested Surgeons From my House in St. Ann ' s Court in Dean-street April 22. 95. Novum Lumen Chyrurgicum Vindicat OR A VINDICATION of the New Light of Chyrurgery THERE having lately stoln out into the World a Scandalous Libel Entituled Novum Lumen Chyrurgicum Extinctum wherein the Author or rather Authors I being very well assured that it was composed by a Club or Cabal of Surgeons pretend to ridicule notorious and known Matter of Fact He or they pretend to detect Imposture and to vindicate the Cause of Truth If so I leave it to the impartial Judgment of any rational sober Person whether the Author or Authors had any reason to have concealed their Names I confess there are the two initial Letters of a Person 's Name prefixed to the Title Page which if they answer to the Person whom I have some reason to suspect if his Name had been written at length his Life and Conversation is so very Scandalous he having last Year been cashier'd the Regiment to which he belonged for his Scandalous way of Living as I have been credibly informed by some of the Officers of the said Regiment that it had been sufficient to have deterred any one from reading any more than the Title Page alone The Authors have taken care to send this Libel into the World at a time when I am full of business in making my Preparation for Flanders and just upon the point of going away and so not capable of writing so full an Answer as otherwise I would have done and which may be expected at the end of the Campaign and also when the Officers of the Army who would have been my Compurgators are gone out of Town Mr. Hall Surgeon to the Honourable Collonel Fitz-Patrick's Regiment of Fusileers who had a considerable Hand in writing this Piece brings in the Major and two Captains of the said Regiment to justify a most

be pierced Whether he saw this himself or had it related to him by some body else I am not certain but he declared that to his certain knowledg my 7th Experiment was true to a tittle it being made upon a Soldier of the Regiment to which he belonged As for Mr. Dun I know nothing more than this That he being in a Publick Coffee-house where there were at least twelve People he complained of two or three Wounds he had received by a Cock's Spur and that there had been something applied by another Surgeon his Hand was much swelled and inflamed and he in great Pain and in great fear of some further ill Consequence so he requested me to apply my external Medicine which I did and gave him some of the Tincture in Ale and in about a quarter of an hours time he declared before all the Company that his Pain was altogether abated On the Morrow he came to me again and desired me to make a fresh dressing which I finding his Hand in a good way of being well refused telling him that one dressing was sufficient Now he being unaccustomed to such sorts of Methods thought I had slighted him so he applied himself to Mr. Johnson who every body will allow advised him to take off my dressings and make use of his so what became of him after I know not My time will not permit me at present to make Remarks upon the whole which however I shall take a convenient time for And the World may expect a full Vindication of my self For it is Truth and its Cause I am contending for and therefore am not ashamed to fix my Name to it I confess using the Words of the Famous Dr. Lock the Imputation of Novelty is a terrible Charge amongst those who judge of mens Heads as they do of their Perukes by the fashion and can allow none to be right but the received Doctrines Truth scarce ever carried it by Vote any where at its first appearance New Opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common But Truth like Gold is not the less so for being newly brought out of the Mine 'T is Trial and Examination must give it price and not any Antick Fashion And tho it be not yet Currant by the Publick Stamp yet it may for all that be as old as Nature and is certainly not the less Genuine I did expect my Hypothesis would have been overthrown and a better erected in its place for which I should have thanked them but instead of that I find they have neither overthrown mine nor erected a new one of their own but have stood at a distance and barked at me shewd their Teeth but either durst not or could not come near enough to bite me in that place where I lay open to them For in laying down an Hypothesis it is as in building a House no Man can be certain that he which comes after cannot erect a better Fabrick But for my Experiments I relating them as Matter of Fact am obliged to stand by them and I defy all their united Force in the least to overthrow To the number of my Experiments I shall add two or three made in England the one made whilst I was in Flanders and the other since I came home Experiment I. A Servant belonging to one Mr. Norris a Member of Parliament for Leverpole in Lanchashire driving a Cart by Accident fell down before the Wheel the Wheel running over his Head divided the Scalp from off all the hinder part of it and in the Words of the said Mr. Norris the Scull was altogether as bare as if scraped with a Razor for the breadth of three or four Inches his Lower Lip by a Splinter or some such thing was divided the length of an Inch or more The Man was presently brought into the said Mr. Norris's House who says That he was the most miserable Spectacle that he ever saw but having some of my Medicines by him he gave a Maid-servant of his Directions how to use it She made a Solution of my Powder in Water and with the said Solution she washed the Scalp and Scull to free them from Dirt and Sand that were lodged upon them Then she laid the divided Scalp upon its proper place and bound it up Then she stitched up the Lip and made an Application Mr. Norris has several times publickly declared in the Grecian Coffee-house in Essex-Buildings that in four days time both the Man's Head and Lip were perfectly well He has likewise declared That the Flux of Blood was so great that he believes he could not have lived whilst they had sent three Miles for a Surgeon unless my Medicines had been applied He says That the great Curiosity of the thing was such and the Cure so speedy that it drew a great many Surgeons of the Country thereabouts to see the Man and to be informed exactly of the Wounds and the manner of Cure who all declared That they did not believe there had been any such thing in nature and that if they had been sent for they could not have told what to have done If Mr. Norris be gone out of Town there are a great many Gentlemen who frequent the Grecian Coffee-house that have heard him relate this thing I must beg Mr. Norris's pardon for taking the liberty to use his Name without first asking his leave but since I have been obliged to it to vindicate truth I hope it will be the more easily excused Experiment II. Performed by Mr. Baker by my Order which compared with the 13 th Experiment in my Novum Lumen is I suppose a Confirmation of the truth of what I there say ON the 8th of March in the Evening I was sent for to one Roger _____ a Corporal in the Company of Capt. Armstrong in the Regiment of Coll. Tiffany There was one Mr. M. a Surgeon in Bloomsbury with him at the same time who had dressed him from the first time the Wound had been received which was about eleven Days before it being given with a large Bagonetsword It entred about the middle of the Leg between both Focils glancing upon the Tibia and so passed on that it went almost through For the Point of the Sword made a sort of a Tumour in the Calf it wounded the Artery but the Artery lying very deep the Flux of Blood was not very violent He dressed it that time and so on for about five Days it bleeding now and then but not much in which time the Wound was much enlarged for at first he could not have put in above four or five Dosils but then twenty perhaps or more as both Mr. Armstrong and all the Family told me On the fifth Day it bled with that impetuosity that it frighted the whole Family He stopt or rather pent in the Blood with good store of Dosils and tite Bandage It continued bleeding thus at times for many Days in