Volume 1

A practical treatise on wounds and other chirurgical subjects: to which is prefixed a short historical account of the rise and progress of surgery and anatomy. Addressed to young surgeons / by Benjamin Gooch.

  • Gooch, Benjamin, -1780?
Date:
1767
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on wounds and other chirurgical subjects: to which is prefixed a short historical account of the rise and progress of surgery and anatomy. Addressed to young surgeons / by Benjamin Gooch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the diftemper, confider it’s nature, the part affedted, the effedts it has produced, and the probable event, with every other circiimftance to diredt our judgment : and, after having fully poffeffed ourfelves of the Diagnojiics of the difeafe, we are to pro¬ ceed to the prognoflics, with great care and circumfpedtion, as it is a very nice point to manage, both in refpedt to the patient, and our own reputation. Laftly we are to put in pradtice the eafleft, fafeft, and mod: ex¬ peditious method of cure, remembering, by all means, that when an operation is judged expedient, due preparation before, with great care and attention after it, is as effentially neceffary to fecure its fuccefs as performing it well. The Surgeon fhou’d fludioufiy avoid being in a hurry, in any operation ; for , by endeavouring to gain the charadter of a dexterous operator, he may, thro’ quicknefs, cut parts that ought not to be touched, or omit doing what ought to be done. This rule of a very wife profeffor, defervedly held in the higheft efteem, fhould ever be born in mind. “ Sat cito, Ji fat bene ” which is ap¬ plicable to all operations in Surgery; the C excellence. • A I