The hospital surgeon: or, a new, gentle, and easie way to cure speedily all sorts of wounds, and other diseases belonging to surgery. Also, a discourse on discover'd bones; and a way to dress, after trepanning, with a new instrument invented by the author ... / [Augustin Belloste].

  • Belloste, Augustin, 1654-1730
Date:
1701
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Credit: The hospital surgeon: or, a new, gentle, and easie way to cure speedily all sorts of wounds, and other diseases belonging to surgery. Also, a discourse on discover'd bones; and a way to dress, after trepanning, with a new instrument invented by the author ... / [Augustin Belloste]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    manner, I have brought toa perfe& Cure, a reat number of Wounds, of all Kinds and Quali- Hes, with much Eg/e, final] Charge, and with fimple Remedies, which are no jek uleful te the Rich, than convenient for the Poor. The great Charges ordinarly laid out ypon the Cure of Wounds,fometimes involve the Pa- tient, after that cure js perfe@ted, in Evils no defs troublefom than the formers The Wounds are fill’d, and clos'd up, but the Pockets are ‘opened, and drain’d, That Perfon, of whom | t fpoke in the twenty fifth Chapter of the Sea ‘Cond Part, before he came under my Care, had a Bill of Three pundred and feventy fix Lin vers, brought him by the Apothecary, for Medicines. furnith'd by him; when yet after -all that Expence, there was no Appearance of a Cure, fe The Credit of a Surgeen, does not confit in emptying the Shops, to cure his Paticnts.s ‘On the contrary, we ought rather Chriftian dike to be faving of the Money of thofe, who put their very Perfon and Life in our Hands: And if they chance to prove 10 ungrateful, as ‘to deny us what we have deferv'd s after fich @ good Deed, we may expe our Reward from Heaven, We ought not to be brib’d, by the confideration of a Megu Intereft, to a- ‘bandon the Fidelity, wherewith we ought to - €ndeayour the Speedy Cure of oor agen | Ik