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M‘Bride, has borne teftimony that John Woodall was a man of 
knowledge, experience, and obferva'ion, and as a proof refers us 
to his accurate account of the fymptoms of the fea feurvy, and 
his directions for the treatment of that dreadful diforder, fo often 
fatal in long voyages. He has bef{towed many pages in enumerat- 
ing the advantages of his trafine, and the difadvantages of the 
trepan, which, with all its faults, muft have been deemed an 
acquifition, when invented, to the {cience of Surgery, at’a time 
when the terebra, terebella, abaptifta, mediolus, meningophylax, 
mallets, chiffels, &c. were the inftruments in common ufe, no 
doubt the trepan muft have thrown all thofe into difrepute. 
* Fallopius (among others) has condemned the mallet and chiffel, 
and has cautioned ,his readers again{t them ; left by-ftanders and 
‘the public fhould, if the patient died, attribute his death to the 
treatment of the operator. 
We ‘find even the writers of times not fo remote cautious of 
recommending the operation of trepanning. Peter Lowe, one 
of the firft Englifh writers on Surgery, who ftyles himfelf Doétor 
of the Facultie. of Chyrurgerie at Paris, and ordinary Chyrurgion 
to the French King and Navarre, in his work called “ A Difcourfe 
“ of the whole Art of Chyrurgerie,” printed in London in the year 
1634, treating on the operation of trepanning, has thefe remark- 
able words, “* There is great judgment to be ufed in doing this 
“ operation, and few there are found that doe it well; many I 
“ have 
* Ideo nolite uti hujufmodi fcalpro, eum malleolis fed potius manibus, fi vulgus 
veftras eft ita ut noftras. Fallopii Opera, Cap. 36, fol. 579. 
