A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London.

  • James Moore
Date:
1784
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Credit: A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    f [ 5 ] N cruelty cannot with juftice be Imputed to an art which prel'erves the lives of many ; and, by tranfient and temporary pains^ faves many more from years of torture. That fome furgeons are cruel, cannot be denied ; and the realon is, becaufe all men are not humane. But nothing can be more abfurd than the opinion entertained by forae people, that a certain degree of cruelty is requifite to enable a man to perform furgi- cal operations with coolnefs and prefence of mind. This is faying, in other words, that to render a man expert in the mofc effential acfs of humanity, it is neceffary he fhould be inhumane. No ;—it is neceffary he fhould be a good anatomift, and thoroughly mafter of his bufmefs as a furgeon; it is neceffary that he be convinced the patient has no other chance for life and eafe ; and then a man of common fteadinefs and the greateft humanity will fuccefsfuliy perform every operation of furgery, and continue tlie pradtice through life, .without any diminu-' jjon of his humanity. 2 If