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A63873	Apologia chyrurgica A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, with other ignorant undertakers. Wherein their fraudulent practices are plainly detected by several remarkable observations, their fair promises prov'd fictions, their administrations pernicious, their confident pretences injurious and destructive to the welfare of the people. By Daniel Turner, practitioner in chyrurgery. Imprimatur. Datum in comitiis censoriis ex ædibus collegii nostri, Jan. 11. 1694. John Lawson, president. Samuel Collins, Richard Torless, Edward Tyson, Martin Lister, censores.	Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3272; ESTC R219447	69,694	162

by Synchondrosis Synneurosis Syssarcosis or Syntenosis I say query but these things of this wonderful Operator and notwithstanding we must own them to be requisite appurtenances to the Study of the Art in which no one can be unskill'd if compleat in the Practice of Bone-setting you shall gain as satisfactory Answers as if to an Infant you were discoursing in some unknown Language How can it be suppos'd now that any one who is ignorant or unknowing after what manner and by what means the several Bones of Humane Bodies are conjoyn'd should be in a capacity the easiest way the safest and most commodious or indeed by any way to repose them when by a Misfortune they are slipt from their proper places is it not farther more improbable that such a person as perfectly knows not where the breach is made whether any or not if any whether transverse oblique c. or how to resist the Accidents which will ensue and afterwards kindly to assist Nature in the generation of a Callus or in short what a Callus means is it not I say a Presumption to imagine that a desir'd Success should attend such an abuseful Intruder 's Undertakings We find it I am sure a very rare Case to see either Leg or Arm which have been fractur'd and the reduction thereof attempted by a pretending Bonesetter if they have escap'd the tyranny of a Gangreen or Sphacelus occasioned frequently from their immoderate bandage intercepting the Spirits and retarding the circulation without some or other indubitable mark of their Ignorance and Indiscretion as a crooked Member from a common and simple Fracture an ill-favour'd if not painful Protuberance which might often have been prevented by Art but will now to their no small prejudice shew they had a broken Limb all their life after This was the ill hap of a poor man at that time of L W who in the morning having fractur'd both Foeils of his Leg was carried to a famous Bonesetter at the other end of the Town who ignorantly girt him up with half a dozen pieces of a Hoopstick laid over a single Cloth which had been spread with a sort of Paste next to the bare Leg and fasten'd with many circumvolutions of a narrow Filleting afterwards ordering the poor wretch to be carried home a mile and half where he was as negligently laid into his Bed without Pillow Junks Cradle or other desence from the incumbent Bed cloaths Having lain thus whilst the Evening in extremity of Pain his Friends out of pity requested a speedy Visit from a neighbouring Chyrurgeon who with my self coming to him we found the Patient roaring after an hideous manner and taking a view of the fractur'd Limb could plainly perceive above and below the Bandage it was already vesicated and tending to mortifie from the Foot upwards Having cut away and otherways with much difficulty separated the Cloaths which had been daub'd over with some very Emplastick Composition we found the Splints by a strict compression had even buried themselves in the Flesh and with abundance of pain and trouble could not be drawn away without excoriating the parts they lay upon When we had thus clear'd our way not having an Elixivium in readiness we order'd some common Spirit of Wine to be set over the Fire whilst we snipp'd off the Vesications impleet with a livid Serum and laid down the Leg upon a soft and easie Pillow where it was fomented with a sufficient number of warm Stuphes and at length with a suitable Rowler drest him up leaving the Limb in as easie a position as we could contrive We contented our selves for this time with what had been done not so much regarding the Fracture till the more important danger of a mortification was taken off which was in a few days afterwards with all its threatning Symptoms remov'd when taking a greater liberty in searching for the broken Bones we perceiv'd a part of the Tibia almost ready to protrude it self lying prominent a little above the Maleolus Internus But finding that every little motion was extreamly painful from the uneven superfice of the fractur'd Bones molesting and irritating the Nervous Fibres and being terribly perplex'd with the thoughts of a Re reduction he declar'd positively his dissent therefrom begging for God's sake that we would desist from troubling him but lay down his Leg without Plaister or Bandage where it lay easie to him for since the danger of its being mortified was over he was certain in himself that the former Undertaker had placed the Bones right and that in a little time they would grow together Hereupon finding him so very wise we left him to his own management having first given him to understand what he must trust to if he persisted to believe that his Bone was set Thus we parted Whether or no the Bonesetter was afterwards sent for to be inform'd of his Work I know not but have lately seen the Patient a meer emaciated Cripple scarcely able to walk by the help of Crutches I could give you an account of many more Examples of this Nature where the Practice hath been of near affinity with this so lately mention'd and the practising Pretender some famous Bonesetter Indeed a man shall rarely at this time peaceably and quietly discharge his Office without interruption either we must be accounted unknowing in our Applications because the Patient finds not presently his wonted Ease or negligent because we will not neither can with safety open their Limbs every day or two or last of all dishonest intending to make a Prize of them by keeping them so long in hand All this befals us from their consideration that so many People so speedily recover under the care of Bonesetters whereas I have told you every simple Contusion being by these men represented as a Fracture or Dislocation the Patient may as safely be permitted to follow his business at a week or ten days end as we can suffer one who hath in reality receiv'd such a Mischance in a month or six weeks time and I think all such may be thankful to GOD and their Surgeon that they escape so especially if they consider how far worse it happens to some under such-like circumstances when taken in hand by these unjust Practitioners in our Art as in the preceding History Amidst the multitude of such as have most unworthily assum'd the Character of Bonesetting it were almost an inexcusable omission should we forget to number the deceased T but since it would be a petty kind of Impiety to trample on the Ashes of the Dead I shall forbear all Reflections of my own yet cannot pass by a remarkable Case given us by a late Author where this person had been concern'd A Youth saith he of about Twelve years of age was seiz'd with a Pain in his right Hip it encreasing with Tumefaction and great Lameness the Parents suspecting it might be out of joynt sent for T the Bonesetter he declar'd it luxated