Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from De Arte Phisicali Et De Cirurgia of Master John Arderne, Surgeon of Newark: Dated 1412
Arderne was essentially an Operating surgeon whose practice lay amongst the nobility, wealthy landowners and the higher clergy.' He was himself well educated though a layman and he met his patients on terms of equality. He was perfectly honest, knew himself to be a member of a serious profession and kept so open a mind that he says more than once, after stating his own practice nevertheless do another man as him thinketh better.
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