A course of chirurgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden at Paris ... Translated from the Paris edition / [Pierre Dionis].

  • Dionis, Mr (Pierre), -1718
Date:
1710
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Credit: A course of chirurgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden at Paris ... Translated from the Paris edition / [Pierre Dionis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fame Body to which it is to be apply’d. Gan the Chirurgeon alledge any thing more glorious for himfdf, than that God, after having made Man* and given a Form and Figure to all the Parts of his Bo¬ dy perfedly proper and fuitable to the Adions to which they were deftin'd, left him in the Chirur- g.eon’s Hands to take care of his Prcfervation, and keep up the Symmetry of all the Parts which he re¬ ceiv’d from the Creator. God, when on Earth, pndis'd this Art, exercifing on all Occafions that perfect Chirurgery in all its Parts, which at the fame time as it knows the Indifpofition, applies the Hand and Remedy to cure it ; and the Apoftles, the SuccefTors of his Charity as well as his Power, did not difdain the Application of their Hands to the Infirmities of Patients, and by their charitable A ill fiance, converted an infinite Number of People, who feeingthem perform extraordinary Cures, were convinc’d of the Truth of their Dodrine. Kings and Princes made Dreffing the Patients, which im¬ plor'd their help5 their principal Occupation, not thinking it below their Dignity to apply their Royal Hands to the curing and relieving of the fame Sub- jed which God himfelf had form'd with his facred Hands; and without ranfacking Antiquity for In- fiances, we have feenour own Sovereign caufeto be prepared in his Prefence, and charitably difiributed to all who ask’d ir, a Remedy which he received from the Prior of Cabrieres; fo that in all Ages Chi¬ rurgery has not been thought unworthy the Pradice of the greatefi: on Earth. The Certainty of Chirurgery is manifeftiy pro¬ ved by the wonderful Effeds which it producer In Couching of Catarads, it inftandy reftores Sight $© the Blind. In emptying the Bread by the Em¬ pyema, it makes the Dumb fpeak; and by reducing Luxations of the Leg and Foot, makes the Lame to walk. In fhort, nothing is more certain than what it does, in adding to the Body what is deficient, in retrenching