A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts

Several features of this book are unusual: it has two slightly different lists of contents which do not correspond precisely with the text, and there is a preface midway through...

Here beginnen gud Medicenes for all Yevels yat any man may have yat gud Leches have drawn out of ye Bokes yet Galien Aschipeus Ypocras hadden. For yai were the best Leches yat w...

You must excuse me, if I digress a little to take notice of an Observation that some Authors have made, _viz._ That from a dangerous Fracture of the Skull, after Death the Liver...

I look upon it as a peculiar Happiness, to live in an Age when Men of our Profession consider, that as the Art is capable of receiving daily Improvements; useful Discoveries, co...

A Gentlewoman near fifty Years of Age, by some Accident received a Blow on her left Breast, which in a few Days was succeeded by a considerable Tumour, whereupon she applyed her...

[Sidenote: Vid. _Zacut. de Prax._ Med. admirand. _Lib._ 1. _Obs._ 15.] There has been a very great Disagreement in the Sentiments of our Predecessors as to this Point; but _Zacu...

Though this _Problem_ at first View may seem to be too near allied to that which proves the Impossibility of curing cancerous Tumours, whether ulcerated or not, by Salivation; y...

Upon this the Doctor no longer, at present, pressed me to use the _Unction_, and in a few Days, the Force of what he had taken being somewhat spent, he began to get Strength, an...

Nevertheless tho’ a _Consumption_ of the _Lungs_ is sometimes thus caused by taking Cold, yet this comes to pass but seldom, unless in such Bodies whose Mass of Blood being rend...

I will now suppose, that you have given up the Men as Incorrigible; since You are convinc’d, by Experience, that even Matrimony is not able to reclaim them. Marriage, indeed, is...

The first Class is to consist of eight, who may legally demand from each Visitant Half a Crown. The second Class to consist of six, whose fix’d Price may be a Crown. The third C...

In the next Place, Men are often weaken’d, and sometimes contract almost incurable Gleets by too frequent and immoderate Enjoyment. This seldom or never happens but in private W...

The former Part of the Proposition is, I hope, sufficiently proved. It is, indeed, evident, from the bare Consideration of the Nature of Females, that if the Men are suffer’d to...

To this Objection, I answer, That it is universally allow’d as one of the greatest Perfections of the Christian Religion, that its Precepts are calculated to promote the Happine...

Having, I hope, sufficiently made it appear, the _Burning_ was a Disease very early among us, and given the Description of it, I shall proceed to say something of the ancient Me...

We do not indeed find the _Disease_ mentioned by _Gascoigne_, was distinguish’d by any particular Name: But great Numbers must unavoidably die of the _Venereal-Malady_ at that t...

XX. Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Amours of the late _William Congreve_, Esq; interspers’d with Essays, Letters, and a Novel, intitled _Adventures of three Days_: All writt...