Surgeon "turned" physician : the career and writings of Daniel Turner (1667-1741)
This thesis focuses upon the surgical and medical career and writings of the London practitioner, Daniel Turner (1667-1741). After apprenticeship, Turner entered the Barber-Surgeons' Company in 1691. His pursuit of private dissection exemplifies what he claimed was the ~absolute necessity~ for surgeons to gain a practical knowledge of anatomy. Turner crusaded to expose surgical ~pretenders~ and to reform the ~vulgar~ state of surgery in order to improve the care qualified surgeons could offer and to prevent the public from falling prey to ~quacks~. He presented apprenticeship in his Art of Surgery as a model for those entering a surgical career, endorsing it with examples from his practice. Turner's career offers a remarkable example of the struggles, successes, and failures of one individual's attempt to move upward in Augustan society. In 1711, Turner ~turned~ from surgery to physic, casting away the handicraft image in an attempt to enhance his social status. He increasingly displayed the trappings associated with gentility. Additionally, he used the ~leisure~ of his new profession to write, aspiring to the status of a man of letters. He published De Morbis Cutaneis to gain the College of Physicians' approval
Wilson, Philip Kevin
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Surgeon "turned" physician : the career and writings of Daniel Turner (1667-1741). This thesis focuses upon the surgical and medical career and writings of the London practitioner, Daniel Turner (1667-1741). After apprenticeship, Turner entered the Barber-Surgeons' Company in 1691. His pursuit of private dissection exemplifies what he claimed was the ~absolute necessity~ for surgeons to gain a practical knowledge of anatomy. Turner crusaded to expose surgical ~pretenders~ and to reform the ~vulgar~ state of surgery in order to improve the care qualified surgeons could offer and to prevent the public from falling prey to ~quacks~. He presented apprenticeship in his Art of Surgery as a model for those entering a surgical career, endorsing it with examples from his practice. Turner's career offers a remarkable example of the struggles, successes, and failures of one individual's attempt to move upward in Augustan society. In 1711, Turner ~turned~ from surgery to physic, casting away the handicraft image in an attempt to enhance his social status. He increasingly displayed the trappings associated with gentility. Additionally, he used the ~leisure~ of his new profession to write, aspiring to the status of a man of letters. He published De Morbis Cutaneis to gain the College of Physicians' approval
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