A full reply to a letter : under the name of Joseph Benwell of Eton - concerning a late operation / by George Aylett, Surgeon, at Windsor.

  • Aylett, George, -1792.
Date:
1760
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Credit: A full reply to a letter : under the name of Joseph Benwell of Eton - concerning a late operation / by George Aylett, Surgeon, at Windsor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ i6] formed, and the flump to he in good condition nay, at this very time, in a letter to me, June 30, be ■ajfures me, that he would not countenance any thing propagated to my prejudice but would even re-* - primand any of his own people if they Ihould be found guilty of fuch behaviour : this certainly therefore muft be a trumped up (lory, the falfity of which, Mr. Bromfield will, no doubt, think in¬ cumbent on him to prove, for the fake of his own character. In page the 14th, it is faid, <c That it was an cc inftance of very ill-judged deference in a man “ who wanted to filence his enemies, and con- ** vince the mailers of Eton of his chirurgical abi- *6 lities, by his having a lhare in the operation, C4 to leave the principal parts to his coliegue.” As to my enemies, I Ihall pay very little regard either to their filence or clamour ; but in refpecl to the Masters, whofe good opinion, after be¬ ing fo long appointed lurgeon at Eton fchool, I hope in fome meafure to have merited ; it cer¬ tainly would have been an ill-judged compliment to them, as well as a ridiculous attempt in me, to have endeavoured to impofe on their difcern- ment, by fuch partial abilities, as jharing an ope¬ ration, which is much eafier performed, than many others of very little Teeming confequence. Indeed I flatter myfelf, that my appointment there derives its foundation from a more general know¬ ledge in my profeffion ; otherwife I apprehend, that I fliould not for fo many years have been conti¬ nued, as I now am, in fo important a truft. The author in page 25 fays, from Mr. Sharp's quotation •, “ by cutting down to the bone at once, and fa wing it direcllv, the confequence “ was, that the fkin and flefh withdrew them- “ felves, &c. this, fays Mr. Benwell, is my cafe.5* ' How