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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

he contracted so ill an habit of Body that the Humours now abounding for want of his accustomed labour occasion'd a new defluxion on the broken Leg with a small inflammation and a very troublesome Pruritus which was certainly caus'd from his having been for some time kept up to a spare and moderate Dyet and now coming of a sudden to make use of a more strong and plentiful nourishment upon this he made his Complaint to us I told him the reason of it and to prevent farther mischief advis'd him to bleed and purge he desir'd time to consider farther of it and promis'd to return in two or three days but however it happen'd we heard no more of him till about five or six weeks afterwards when going by his House I took the opportunity of calling on him and was presently welcom'd by his Wife with the opprobrious Language of a dishonest and unskilful person she told me that I had ruin'd her Husband and that his Leg was very near to have been cut off since I had seen him that it was broken out all over and farther that she had taken the Advice of three several Chyrurgeons one of them being the King 's general Surgeon who told her That these severe Symptoms were brought upon him by his broken Leg which had never been well set I was very attentive to the Woman's Discourse and did at first imagine it to be a Fiction or plausible Story invented with a design to keep off the Demand of Satisfaction for his Cure till being better inform'd of the business by others I began to admire extreamly that any Artist especially the King's Surgeon should be so void of Knowledge as well as Honesty to impute this defluxion of sharp Humour upon the Leg to an ill reduction of the Fracture which had been set and united by a confirm'd Callus above a month before I thought it very strange that three such Practitioners as they were represented should be so far short of the Truth and upon that account endeavour'd all I could to inform my self who they were the first of these I came soon after to understand was a Barber in the Neighbourhood whose Frame of Blood-Porringers and his Cloth sew'd round with Teeth were all that render'd him so eminent a Professor the second who had been consulted was a practising Ap in S F this Person had forewarn'd the Patient that he should not bleed because the Weather was not warm enough and for the same cause Purgation was interdicted The last that had been advis'd with I found to be an illegal skulking Sea Practitioner who had wheedled himself into their good opinion and by assuming the Epithet of a Regius-Professor was look'd upon as an Oracle and his Promises already little short of Performance They thought they could do no less than give this sworded Gentleman his Fee in hand for his Visit after which the Doctor took an occasion to withdraw and show them his backside for they could never after hear what became of him These were the three famously qualified Operators who had concurr'd in their Opinions That the Bone was not rightly set and that if they had not been consulted the Leg must have been cut off I have been the larger in a rehearsal of all circumstances relating to this case that I might more clearly investigate the whole truth of the matter and give the plainer demonstration of the fraudulent Practises of such abuseful Intruders on this noble Art I think the Case was here so evident that nothing unless a Barber's Ignorance could have made upon an excoriation the most irrational prediction of an Amputation what other Survenient might indeed have been expected than that from the Patient 's acquir'd Chacochymy he should be infested with so troublesome an Ulceration which was no other than the effect of an acred or sharp Serum in the Blood more readily redounding on the weak Member than another part Who unless such an imprudent practising Ap would have forbidden in this case Phlebotomy with the repetition of appropriate Catharticks or what Novice other than an unexperienc'd Sea Practitioner would have advis'd the application of Digestives to encrease the pain and fluxion where when the acidity of the Blood had been corrected there had needed nothing more than an anodyne Epulotick to have perfected this mighty cure We may hereby inform our selves how inconsiderable a distinction the Commonalty make between a legal Artist and a spurious or false Pretender They imagine as we may reasonably think that there is no other difference between a Barber's Pole when his Window is beset with Porringers and the Surgeon's Arms than in some few degrees of a larger purchas'd Knowledge and acquir'd Experience and therefore whilst the former calls himself a Barber-Surgeon and will practise underhand it may be for little or nothing they are content to save themselves a present Penny altho' it cost them a Pound hereafter or to let this Person try Experiments upon their Bodies in order for the future Employment of the Chyrurgeon They can easily enough believe for that the Ap sells them out his Balsams Unguents and Emplasters he must certainly be acquainted with their true and proper Uses and therefore if he take upon him the Practise they scruple not his Fidelity his Judgment nor his Honesty But above all they seem the most willing to be impos'd on by the Pretence of a Sea Professor if he be not altogether so arrogant as to take upon him the Title of the King's Surgeon in general yet his large Experience on the Seas his having been present in so many hundred Engagements where he hath taken off mens Limbs by the dozen seldom eating a morsel till he hath whipp'd off a score Members where the Bullets were wont to rattle like Hail about his Ears some taking off his Wig some piercing his Hat and others if you 'll believe him have almost touched his Heart yet still by his unbounded Knowledge in the Art of Healing he remains alive he hath sailed so many times into Asia so many to Arabia and as many to the farthest parts of America or if he please to the outmost Borders of the Earth has gone through so many several Hardships and met with such miraculous Deliverances as would make you shake and tremble at the recital 'T is this I say that renders him a man of great repute and you must certainly admire to hear him tell what he underwent to purchase Experience in the Medicinal Art or to render himself the more compleatly qualified for the Chyrurgick Practice SECT V. AFTER all as if this so worthy Profession had not suffer'd by these means a sufficient diminution in its Repute or its honourable Professors had not been hereby enough degraded we are not wanting of the utmost Endeavours of a Petticoat Pretender to farther our present Ignominy and Contempt Were I speaking to any one of a discerning Judgment I would argue nothing more against the Sufferance of