Life and character of the celebrated Mr. Martin Van Butchell, surgeon dentist and fistula curer, of Mount-street, Berkeley-square.

Date:
[1803]
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Credit: Life and character of the celebrated Mr. Martin Van Butchell, surgeon dentist and fistula curer, of Mount-street, Berkeley-square. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    longer the raaid, but the mistress of the house; and that neither herself nor Mr. Van Butchell, had any further oc- casion for her services. And as this unexpected news was duly affirmed by tlie grave Doctor and administrator of justice, submission was the only alternative that remained; while the triumph of one party, and the mortification of the otlier, may be more easily conceived than expressed. Next to Mr. Van Butchell’s dress, and the wearing of his beard, one of the first singularities which distin- guished'him, was his walking about the streets with a large Otaheitan tooth or bone in his hand; but some say it is the jaw-bone of an ass. The latter, we believe, to be the fact, as he says it is to defend man. This in tlie hands of Martin Van Butchell, was oidy intended to deter the boys from insulting him, as they w^re used to do, before his person and character were so well known, as they were in the course of a few years after he came to reside in Mount Street, Berkeley Square,—A string is fastened to this im- plement, which he attaches to his wrist. , Soon after his being in Mount Street, he had the following notice painted upon the front of his house. LETTERS PATENT, M A 11T I N VAN BUTCHELL’S NEW-INVENTED With caustic care—and old Phitn SPRING BANDS AND FASTNINGS Joinctinies in six days, and always ten—the Fistulx in Ana. BY Thus', said sneaking Jack, m be first j if I get my Money. HIS MAJESTY’S ROYAL speaking like himself, 1 don’t care who suffers. TOR