Remarks on medical jurisprudence; intended for the general information of juries and young surgeons / [William Dease].

  • William Dease
Date:
1793
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    trial, w hence, fhould he be abfent, even on the mod preffing profeflional occafion, he may be heavily fined.—Thofe are very ftrong motives for furgeons to endeavour, as much as poffible, to avoid being engaged on fuch occafions. I was myfelf fined fifty pounds by the late Judge Robinfon, although he had been previoufly informed that I had onlyjuft quitted the court, on being fent for to a man whofe thi^h I had amputated in the morn- ing, and who was faid to have had a bleeding from the flump: to this excufe the judge paid not the leaft attention, as, I believe, he fuppofed it to be ill-founded ; foimpofed the fine. It is true, I got it taken off next day. But there is fomethingextremely humiliating and vexatious in the various applications ne- ceffary to be made on thofe occafions. A surgeon not long fince had a keeper put on his houfe, in confequence of a green- wax procefs, for non-attendance, although he had not been half an hour abfent from court ; but unfortunately the trial com- menced in the interim. This cafe was ex- tremely diftrelfing, for he was a man fur- rounded with a fmall family, and could not poffibly command half the fum. The confe- quence was, the keeper remained onhis houfe for eight weeks, as the judge who impofed the fine was abfent on circuit, and nothing could
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