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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    f -i7 ] How the withdrawing the flejh can be reconciled with the charge alledged againft me in page the 36rh, where it is affirmed, I left too great a portion of mufcle (or fleffi) I know not. Had I fiafhed down to the bone in the manner afferted, there poftibly might have been too much hone left, and too little Jkin and mufcle •, but the very contrary to this is affirmed by Mr. Bromfield, who has de¬ clared, that there was fufficient fkin for any one to have left \ and by this very charge againft me, it is affirmed, that there was too great a portion of mufcle left; I ffiall leave thefe contradictory accounts to be reconciled by the ingenious author, who feems to have a ftrange fatality attending his rea¬ ligning *, and whatever medical attainments he may poffiefs, it is plain, as Falftaff fays of Honour, that he has no frail in furgery. The affair of dreffing the ftump the hrff time, has been already fo fully replied to in my fir ft pamphlet, where Mr. Bromfield has acknowledged the impropriety of his conduct at that period ; that I ffiall not trouble the reader with a repetition on that head *, nor can I think it worth while af¬ ter that, to anfvver the trifling interrogatories now advanced. In page the 34th, it is faid, “ As to the di- <c geftion of the ftump, the ferjeant furgeons found “ no fault with it.” If fo, is it not a demonftra- tion, that the caufe of the fever did not arife from any thing which paft in the operation ? for certainly the wound, had it been the caufe of the fever, could not have been in a good condition \ unlefs that which is good in itfelf can produce bad confequences. After this, it is added, cc With regard to the ct cure of the fever, they know they gave no direc- f tions about ltd3 This is the moft extraordinary D 2 after don