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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    If a-Patient is deftroy’d by unexpected Acci- dents, when the Cureis delay’d on a mercena- ry Account 5 the Surgeon, under whofe ‘Care he was, becomes guilty of his Death.- I have feen many Perfons of Note, whom { won’t name, who paffing through Brianjon, eight or nine Months after the Battel of Mar- feils, wherein they had been wounded, were either fiftulous, or very far from being com- pleatly cur'd. | Neverthelefs, that I may not rafhly blame — thofe., who had thefe Perfons under their Care, I am willing to believe, that the Ten- dernefs of their Conftitution, their 1] Tempera- ment, or the unwholfom Air , which very — much conduces to continue the Wounds, oc- cafion’d that Tedioufnefs of thefe Cures 3 which in other Perfons and Circumftances, - had been. perfeétly finifh’d in two or three Months at moft; but I can't reftrain my felf from faying, that the Tents, as well as the fre- quent, and painful Way ‘of Dreffing fo much in Ufe, are fufficient to caufe all thefe Acci- dents, and to hinder the Cure of Wounds.: and this is what makes Surgeons hated, and Surgery, chargeable. ak hoe In this little Work, I have done what I coud to fhew, not fo much by Reafoning, as Examples and, Authority, that Nature. has the greateft Hand in curing W ounds 3 or. to {peak a7 more