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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for Pain in the Teeth others for Scald Heads some famous for sore Throats others for sore Legs with a Thousand more Galen in his Book of Sects never made mention of half so many I think if this worshipful Rabblement were gather'd together they would make a much greater procession than ever did the Monks Fryars and Nuns when they swarmed most in London This unprofitable Company have so encreas'd in this City that all the Countries in England have taken notice thereof yea and at this day all the Countries in Christendom may wonder at our Laws in suffering and maintaining of them Well I say we will let these pass with Tinkers Carpenters Old Women c. and a great many of other Occupations whereof some come out of France some out of Germany and so of other Countries some for Religion and some to pick Pockets And all these are now become great Physicians and Chyrurgions to the no small advancement of this noble Art of Medicine for their worthy Cures do bear such witness thereof and give such a Report unto them that at this day the learned Physicians and Chyrurgions may not a little rejoice I say no more but God amend all and unless these things are quickly amended I think the diseased people with Wounds Ulcers c. are like to have small help and if it shall chance the Prince to have Wars then are this Company that I have spoken of like to serve And I doubt nothing but that the Souldiers shall have great courage to fight forasmuch as they shall have such a goodly company of Chyrurgions to cure them when they are wounded As for others there will be but few left unless better order be taken and that with speed Thus we see that in those days the unwearied Endeavours of illiterate and base People were not wanting in their Knavish Practices to overthrow the Medicinal Art but lest I tire my Reader with a preliminary Discourse I shall hasten to expose which was the drift of my Undertaking the Principal Intruders on and Pretenders to the same by whose disingenuous Practice it hath receiv'd so great a diminution in the estimate of some responsible but mostly the common People each of which you will find the Subject of a particular Section Apologia Chyrurgica SECT I. UPON enquiry into the Causes of the Contempt both of Physicians and Chyrurgions we shall find in the first place as one great Promoter hereof the perfidious Practices of a Fellow whom the Vulgar entitle Mountebank He is one whose true and fixed Character with respect to his unsetled state and condition cannot properly be render'd and therefore we will content our selves with a description of his Employment An Emperick or Mountebank after Dr. Blancard's concise and pithy remark on him is one who vends his irrational and immethodical Medicines to the Rabble that surround him for being mounted on the publick Stage of his Ambition he blows so loud the Trumpet of his otherwise insupportable Fame that the Passengers who pass by him run as great hazard of being infected from his Discourse as did the Company of Ulysses when they stop'd their Ears to prevent being captivated by the charming Syrens 'T is true the musical concord of his Notes cannot be suppos'd so tempting as was theirs yet by reason of those fatal Events which do attend the Unwary that by this Bait are hauled into his Net he may be look'd on as more perilous than those ficitious Musicianers Having sent his Fool before him with his other antick Attendants by some pleasing tho' ridiculous Gestures to allure the People when his Auditory is somewhat numerous Sir Fop himself upon notice given immediately mounts the Stage and after a very reverend Congee to his ignorant Admirers addresseth himself to this purpose Gentlemen The deep sence of your subjection to Bodily Infirmities and your want of the most true and necessary means for your recovery I say weighing in my Mind the multitude of Distempers which my fellow Creatures are liable to undergo if not redressed by the hands of Art and withal well knowing your want of able Physicians I thought in this great exigency there was an absolute necessity for me to force my self from that private and contemplative life I lead in the free enjoyment of a plentiful Estate to make known to you my Abilities in the practise of Physick as well as Surgery I will assure you Gentlemen I have obtain'd such stupendious specifick Remedies for the cure of most if not all your Distempers as no Mortal besides my self can reasonably pretend to Now having his Man ready that attends his motions with his Dish of Trumpery for the entertainment of his Guests he first pulls out his little Box of Electuary and proceeds Here is first of all Gentlemen my true and only famous Orvietan a Medicine of such admirable property that it expels all manner of Poyson which is incident to the whole Race of Adam 's Posterity Gentlemen this only administration strikes at the very Root of Distempers and perfectly eradicates the worst of their Concomitants The Orvietan of it self Gentlemen is very well worth your Money but 't is the consideration of your Wants and the real necessity that there is to keep such things by you that occasions me out of a cordial love and respect to your welfare to let you have some other things almost gratis into the bargain Here are next of all Gentlemen my Pilulae Excellentissimae a most incomparable Purge I will assure you Gentlemen which answer all Intentions of purging Physick and are the most friendly to Nature of any thing yet known They sweep the Stomach cleanse it of all Impurities whatsoever and carry them forth of doors with the greatest ease imaginable You have next Gentlemen my Pulvis contra Vermes or Pouder which kills all Worms This Pouder Gentlemen not only expels those Crudities and the Corruption which engenders those troublesome Insects but also procures a good Appetite makes a light Heart and recreates all the Spirits as well natural vital and animal And now Gentlemen that you may see I am as willing to take care of those outward Accidents you are prone to as your inward Distempers I give you Fourthly my Emplastrum divinum which for its wonderful Vertues may truly be so call'd It cures all Aches proceeding from Heat or Cold Pains of what kind soever in any part of the Body it resolves Tumors of all sorts tho' never so obdurate and hard to be dealt withal by other Remedies In short Gentlemen you need no other Plaister to keep by you on any account whatsoever You have lastly Gentlemen my Balsamum Multarum Virtutum which cures all Wounds Ulcers Fistula's and what not for indeed it is of sufficient force to withstand all putrefied Humours lodged in any part of the Body So that you see Gentlemen I am as willing to save you the unreasonable Fees of other Physicians as the extraordinary Sums of Mony which