A Collection of Tracts, Chirugical and Medical; viz. I. A New Light of Chirurgery ... II. The New Light of Chirurgery vindicated from the unjust aspersions of several unknown calumniators,&c. III. A Physico-medical Essay concerning Alkaly and Acid ... IV. Further Considerations concerning Alkaly and Acid ... V. A Treatise of the Gout ... VI. The Doctrin of Acids in the Cure of Diseases further asserted, in answer to Dr. Tuthill ... VII. A Relation of a Sudden and Extraordinary Cure of a Person bitten by a Viper ... All corrected and inlarg'd by John Colbatch, etc


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A Collection of Tracts, Chirurgical and Medical; viz. I. A New Light of Chirurgery ... II. The New Light of Chirurgery vindicated ... III. A Physico-medical Essay concerning Alkaly and Acid ... IV. Further Considerations concerning Alkaly and Acid ... V. A Treatise of the Gout ... VI. The Doctrine of Acids in the Cure of Diseases further asserted ... VII. A Relation of a sudden and extraordinary Cure of a Person bitten by a Viper ... The second edition [of "Novum lumen chirurgicum"] corrected, etc


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Surgery, Skin and Syphilis


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Daniel Turner’s prolific writings provide valuable insight into the practice of a commonplace Enlightenment London surgeon. Turner’s career-long crusade against quackery and his voluminous writings on syphilis, a common ‘surgical disorder’, provide a refined view into distinction between orthodox and quack practices in eighteenth-century London.