The parlour window; or, anecdotes / original remarks on books, etc. By the Rev. Edward Mangin.

  • Edward Mangin
Date:
1841
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Credit: The parlour window; or, anecdotes / original remarks on books, etc. By the Rev. Edward Mangin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    y where human sufferings are concerned; and it is but reasonable to conclude that this is the case; they, from science and reflection, best of all people, know- ing what bodily pain is. Of course, an able operator does not allow his sensibility to appear, while em- ployed in his important office, when tremors, excla- mations of pity, &c. would be productive of addi- tional misery to his patient. He is then, as I have many a time seen an eminent practitioner, cool, col- lected, decided; his eye firmly fixed, his lips com- pressed, his brow meditative; and his words, should he speak to give directions, few, and to the point. He is, in all he does, rapid indeed, hut not hurried; aware that haste generates mistakes, and conse- quently increases torture. One of the most thoroughly good-natured men I ever knew, a surgeon, who had been in the army, was proverbial for kindness of disposition, tranquillity of manner, and personal courage. He was seen by hundreds, quietly and scientifically employed in the field, dressing the wounded, in the presence of the enemy, and exposed to a fire of cannon and small arms. I knew another, the surgeon of a line-of-battle ship, and who nearly fainted from the excess of his feelings, and with the fatigue he underwent on the dreadful day of Trafalgar. Of this man, and this bloody day, I have a story to tell, the truth of which he himself confirmed to me, as far as manly pride would let him. During the heat of conflict, a seaman
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