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

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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$V / • ' [30] Aylett was to perform any part of the operation, which required the ufe of the knife, till Ifaw it in his hand, juft at the inftant Mr. Benwell had been taken from his bed, and placed on the table; when it was too late for me to offer to interfere, as fuch a ftep muft, in all probability, have greatly affebled Mr. Benwell, Thomas Foppleton. Sworn before me, one of his majefty’s juf- tices of the peace for the county of Berks, this fifth day of February, 1760. Richard Tonfon. The writer having introduced Mr. Foppleton in this Hi ape to the public, thinks it necdTary to make feme apology for him, as men ufually do, when they bring a perfon into company which he has notorioufiy abufed before, and with much gravity proceeds thus—“ This is the declaration of Mr. Foppleton upon oath before a magiftrate : it is not a fcory, compiled from his unguarded ex- 'IC preffions, which might have been drawn from him “ perhaps by praTifing upon his good nature—-A man who loves peace, often foftens the rigour of truth in common converfation *, but the folemnity 44 of an oath admits of no palliation of fadls \ and 44 forces an honeft man to fpeak out his real fenti- “ ments Now to wave the firfi paragraph, which carries its own infignificance upon the face of it, I fhall obferve a little upon the fecond, which, as applied to this cafe, has more abfurdity in it, than I ihould have thought it. pofiible to crowd into fo Xmall a compafs. Firii,$