The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them ail with great dexterity : this of furgeon, was, perhaps, the only one in which his fkill was fomewhat deficient, at leaft that branch of tapping for the dropfy ; for he very ingen uoufiy and, modeftly confefled, he had never feen the operation performed, nor was pof- fefled of that chirurgical inftrument with which it is performed. Friday, june 28. By way of pre¬ vention, therefore, I this day fent for my friend Mr. Hunter, the great fur¬ geon and anatomifi of Covent-garden 5 and, though my belly was not yet very full and tight, let out ten quarts of wa¬ ter, the young fea-furgeon attending the operation, not as a performer, but as a ftudent, I was now eafed of the greatefl ap» prehenfion which I had from the length of the pafiage ; and I told the captain, I was become indifferent as to the time of his failing. He expreffed much fa- tisfaftion in this declaration, and at hearing