Surgery, skin and syphilis : Daniel Turner's London (1667-1741) / Philip K. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Philip K., author.

Series:

Clio Medica 54.

Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine

Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery--History.

Surgery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Brill 1999

[Place of publication not identified] : [Brill], [1999]

Summary:

Daniel Turner’s prolific writings provide valuable insight into the practice of a commonplace Enlightenment London surgeon. Examining his personal, professional, and genteel achievements. Enhances our understanding of the boundary between surgeons and physicians in Enlightenment ‘marketplace’ practice. Turner’s pioneering writing on skin disease, De Morbis Cutaneis , emphasizes the skin’s role as a physical and professional boundary between university-educated physicians who treated internal disease and apprentice-trained surgeons relegated to the care of external disorders. 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.

Contents:

Surgery in History

Entering the Surgical Trade

The Surgical Art

Surgical Perspectives of the Body with a Special Focus on Skin

A Culture of Reform

Dispute over the Power of the Maternal Imagination1

Exposing the ‘Secret Disease’: Recognizing and Treating Syphilis

Self-Styled Gentleman in London’s Middle Class

Aftermath

Vernacular Surgical Treatises 1685-1745

Constitution of the Benevolent Society for the Improvement of Chyrurgery, andc. (1704)

List of the Books Turner Gave to Yale College

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33325-8

OCLC:

43328034

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004333253 DOI