Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery / By Graham Everitt.
- Everitt, Graham.
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery / By Graham Everitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![teenth centuries, but by a medical writer of 1670. The author of the Accomplisht Physician, writing in that year, recommends the student in physic, after a certain course of study at home, to travel for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of foreign practice. At Paris, for instance, he would visit every day for a year the hospitals of l'Hostel Dieu and La Charit6e. Here, twice a week, he would meet with M. Janot, the most celebrated surgeon of the age, and see how he performed the operations of trepanning, amputating, and other chirurgical treatment, with the greatest dexterity possible. At Montpellier, where he would stay another year, he would meet with a concourse of the greatest Proficients in Physic of Europe. At Padua he would visit M the famed Hospital of San Lorenzo, and observe the Italian method of curing diseases by [a course of] alterative Broaths, without purging or bleeding. Having resided here for the space, say, of six months, he might then justly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21506346_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
