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

• Superior document: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• VerfasserIn: Wilson, Philip K.,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [1999]
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) :; illustrations, portraits.

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.

Table of 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.