This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...materia medica, and some progress in mathematics and mechanics. "But," he adds, "there must be a happiness, as well as art, to complete the character of the great surgeon. He ought to have firm, steady hands and be able to use both alike, a strong, clear sight, and, above all, a mind calm and intrepid, yet humane and compassionate, avoiding every appearance of terror and cruelty to his patients, amidst the most severe operations." To gentlemen in new settled Fig. 2.--Title page to Jones' "Wounds and Fractures." countries, where opportunities of improvement are not within the reach of every student, he "earnestly recommends a diligent, attentive and repeated perusal of the best English writers." The introduction concludes: "As to those gentlemen who will neither read nor reason, but practice at a venture, and sport with the lives and limbs of their fellow-creatures, I can only, with Dr. Huxham, advise them seriously to eruse the sixth commandment, which is 'Thou shalt not kill.'" When the British army took possession of New York, Dr. Jones was among those who left the city. For a time he occupied a seat in the State Senate, and then entered the medical department of the army. His delicate health soon compelled him to return to civil dutv, and going to Philadelphia. which had been evacuated by the British, he received so much relief from his asthma that he settled there permanently in 1,779. The next year he succeeded Dr. John Redman as one of the physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital, was the first president of the humane society, and a consulting physician of the Philadelphia Dispensary. In 1786 he was elected the first vice-president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which...