Animadversions on a late pompous book, intituled, Osteographia; or, The anatomy of the bones by William Cheselden ... / [John Douglas].

  • John Douglas
Date:
1735
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Credit: Animadversions on a late pompous book, intituled, Osteographia; or, The anatomy of the bones by William Cheselden ... / [John Douglas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pray what did Mr.SERjEANT Barnard, See. do in this cafe? did they cure it radically (like Mr. Petit, and JVIr. Garengeot) by the operation, or palliatively by a trufs ? Thefe are trifles, only fit for dull pra6titioners.to enquire after, but below the dignity of the Medici Ifonorati & Nobiles! as Dr. Fre ind affects to call them. A little lower, he lays, To form a right notion of the ftrudture of thefe parts, one ought to fee the curious pre?* parations of that diligent and accurate Anatomift Dr. Douglas.” Had Dr. F R EIN D view’d thefe truly excellent and match¬ less colledtion of usefull preparations with an eye of a practitioner, he never would have aflerted, that a Bubonocele and a Hernia Femoralis were fynonimous terms ; that there was naturally a remarkable cavity in the Thigh, between the PeCtinseus and Sartorius j that there is nothing but a little fat^ and fome membranous fibres, which feparate His imaginary cavity from the Abdomen ; that the Ligamentum Rotundum Uteri, is ftrongly inferred into the Os Pubis; * &c. &c. But here I might be asked, how comes it, that the ancient Greek and Roman Phyficians wrote fo intelligeably, and pointedly on Surgery, and one of the top Modern phyfi¬ cians, fo indifferently. ? A. The ancient phyficians practiced Surgery, (and efteemed it the Moft Honourable, as well as the Moft Ufeful part of their Profeflion,) fiut most of the Moderns only read Surgery : therefore, cannot poflibly un- derftand it, fo as to write pertinently about it, as is juftly obferved by the moft eminent of all the chirurgical writers^ RoSSET,t“Ex MUTIS DUNTAXAT M A G I ST R IS, Ne M O Auriga, Nauta, Imperator, Chirurgus, Ora- TOR, AUT DENEQUE ArTIFEX BONUS EVAsItI Quam qmfq^ide mvit Artem ^ Hi fiery of Phyjlck. j Nil majm generatur ipfo Nec viget qtiicquam fimik / Ho K.
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