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“ lave feen of very learned and expert men, and heard of divers 
“ to my great joy and comfort, among which Mr. George Baker, 
* fome time Chyrurgion Ordinarie to that worthy * Prince, Queen 
« Elizabeth, and now to his moft facred Majeftie; a man of great 
* learning and experience, moft fortunate and dexter in this 
“« operation, like as in all other operations of Chyrurgery ;” and. 
concluding his chapter with this pious ejaculation, “ God increafe 
“ the number of fuch in this kingdom,” plainly indicates that, at the 
time he wrote, the fcience of Surgery had not arrived to fo flou- 
rifhing a ftate in Britain as it has in thefe days. And John 
Woodall, the inventor of the trafine, in a former part of his 
work defires the young practitioner not to proceed too haftily in 
the ufe of the trepan, “ for,” fays he, “ many + worthy artifts there 
“ are at this day living, who have performed great cures in frac- 
“ tures of the cranium, and yet never knew the worthy ufe of this 
“ inftrument” (the trepan); and then he tells us that, in eight 
years living in Germany, he could not find that the German 
Surgeons ufed a trepan, though they both fpoke and wrote 
about it. 
~ 
t Tue Englifh tranflator of the works of Ambroife Paré has 
given us a figure of the trafine, and has quoted for his authority 
-Doétor Helkiah Crooke, a phyfician, who flourifhed in England 
.in the reign of King Charles the Firft. Probably the Doctor took 
_ the hint from John Woodall. By the dates of their works they 
Be Vor. TV.) ye Ss ~ appear 
* So in the original, which is in black letter, page 320. | 
+ Woodall’s Military and Domeftique Surgery, page 4. 
} Johnfton’s Tranflation of Ambroife Paré, book x. chap. 18. page 246. 
