An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead in the cases of two officers of His Majesty's Army; to which are prefixed historical and physiological remarks on the nasal operation; including descriptions of the Indian and Italian methods / [J.C. Carpue].

Joseph Constantine Carpue

Date:: 1816

Credit: An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead in the cases of two officers of His Majesty's Army; to which are prefixed historical and physiological remarks on the nasal operation; including descriptions of the Indian and Italian methods / [J.C. Carpue]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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) PHYSIOLOGICAL REMARKS. 43 mins.”* Thus, astrology, medicine, and pottery are among the several pursuits allowed to one and the same cast. That astrology and medicine should be thrown into the sanie lot, excites no surprise. In Persia, and all the eastern countries, the art of healing is consigned to the professors of these two sciences conjointly and the same prevails, or has prevailed, in many other parts of the world. It is hence that our ancient almanacs contained .instructions concerning the health of the body ; and, at this day, Francis Moore,” though he calls himself “ physician,” is plainly an astrologer. The adjuncts G 2 of * Mrs. Grabanl’s Letters on India. f Chardin gives a clear view of the respective principles by which the two professions are governed, in the treating of their patients: The physicians,” says he, “ endeavour “ to adapt their remedies to the phenomena of the disease, while the astrologers, on their “ side, maintain, that attention is to be paid to the phenomena of the planetary system, in order to determine the most proper time for taking medecines.” The professions, in the mean time, are not to be understood as further distinguishable, than as the one consists in physicians who combine astrology with their medicines, and the other in physicians whp rely upon their medicines only. The English physician, described by Chaucer, is no other than the astrologer of Chardin : “ With us there was a doctor of physik. In al the worlde was there non hym lyk, “To speak of physik and of surgerye j “ For he was groundit in astronomy, “ He kept his pacient a ful gret del, “ In hours by his magyk-naturel; “ Wei couth he fortunen the ascendent “ Of his ymagys for his pacient, ********* “ Full ready had he his apothecaryes, '' To send him his droggis and letewaryes [electuaries].” Canterbury Tales.

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