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Surgery, Skin and Syphilis
Daniel Turnerâs London (1667-1741)
Series: - Clio Medica Online, Volume: 54
- Clio Medica, Volume: 54
Author:
Daniel Turnerâs 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 âmarketplaceâ practice. Turnerâs pioneering writing on skin disease, De Morbis Cutaneis, emphasizes the skinâs 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. Turnerâs career-long crusade against quackery and his voluminous writings on syphilis, a common âsurgical disorderâ, provide a refined view into distinction between orthodox and quack practices in eighteenth-century London.
Philip K. Wilson, MA (John Hopkins University) and Ph.D. (University College London) recently joined the 'Great Books' faculty at Shimer College in Waukegan, Illinois after having taught the history of science at Truman State |University in Kirksville, Missouri. He edited the five-volume, Childbirth: Changing Ideas and Practices in Britain and America from 1600 to the Present (Garland, 1996). Currently Wilson is pursuing biographical research on the Swiss-American geologist and geographer, Arnold Guyot and American eugenicist, Harry Laughlin. Wilson lives with his wife, Janice, and sons, James and Douglas, in Libertyville, Illinois.
âThis is a well-researched and exceedingly informative book â¦â
in: Social History of Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2001
in: Social History of Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2001
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Brief Chronology of Daniel Turner's Life and Writings
1. Surgery in History
2. Entering the Surgical Trade
3. The Surgical Art
4. Surgical Perspectives of the Body with a Special Focus on Skin
5. A Culture of Reform. 6. Dispute over the Power of the Maternal Imagination
7. Exposing the 'Secret Disease': Recognizing and Treating Syphilis
8. Self-Styled Gentleman in London's Middle Class
9. Aftermath
Appendix 1. Vernacular Surgical Treatises 1685-1745
Appendix 2. Constitution of the Benevolent Society for the Improvement of Chyrurgery, &c. (1704)
Appendix 3. List of the Books Turner Gave to Yale College
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Brief Chronology of Daniel Turner's Life and Writings
1. Surgery in History
2. Entering the Surgical Trade
3. The Surgical Art
4. Surgical Perspectives of the Body with a Special Focus on Skin
5. A Culture of Reform. 6. Dispute over the Power of the Maternal Imagination
7. Exposing the 'Secret Disease': Recognizing and Treating Syphilis
8. Self-Styled Gentleman in London's Middle Class
9. Aftermath
Appendix 1. Vernacular Surgical Treatises 1685-1745
Appendix 2. Constitution of the Benevolent Society for the Improvement of Chyrurgery, &c. (1704)
Appendix 3. List of the Books Turner Gave to Yale College
Bibliography
Index