The hospital-surgeon: or, a new, gentle, and easie way, to cure speedily all sorts of wounds, and other diseases belonging to surgery. ... In three...

"WE could, possibly, have found out a Patron, had it been thought necessary, under the protection of whose Name, this Stranger might have come abroad into our English World: But as we look upon Dedications to be, for the most part, empty Formalities, as little minded by every one else, as what is said in ém, is believ'd by the Writer; so we doubt not but this Book, will every where meet with a becoming Reception, seeing it is sent out on such a friendly Errand, as to heal our Sores, and pour Oyl and Wine into our Wounds.
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.