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Excerpt from Plain Concise Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures: To Which Is Added, a Short Appendix on Camp and Military Hospitals; Principally Designed for the Use of Young Military Surgeons, in North-America During incarnation, it 18 the foltefl medium that can be app plied between the roller and tender granulations; and at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Jones was born in 1729 in Jamaica, Queens County, New York, United States, of Welsh Quaker stock. He was the son of Dr. Evan Jones and his wife, Mary Stephenson. His grandfather, Dr. Edward Jones, came to Pennsylvania in June 1682, and married Mary Wynne, daughter of Dr. Thomas Wynne who brought his family to Pennsylvania with William Penn on the Welcome later in the same year.
After a course of study at a private school in New York, John Jones went to Philadelphia to begin medical studies under his uncle by marriage, Thomas Cadwalader, but he received most of his education abroad, studying in London under William Hunter and Percival Pott, and in Paris under Petit and Le Dran. He also took courses at Edinburgh and Leyden (then a famous medical center), and finally obtained his degree in 1751 at the University of Rheims, where his graduation thesis (published in New York in 1765) bore the title Observations on Wounds.
After graduation Jones settled in New York, where he soon became known as surgeon and obstetrician. He is said to have been the first American lithotomist, he was certainly a successful one, and his fame soon became diffused throughout the colonies. He never required over three minutes to complete the operation of lithotomy and performed it on occasion in half that time.
At the outbreak of the French and Indian War he at once volunteered as surgeon, and served until the close of hostilities. In 1767, when the medical department of King's College, New York, was organized, he became professor of surgery and obstetrics.
A little later, suffering from asthma, he made a long visit to London, where he improved the time by fraternizing with his former teachers and by attempting to obtain subscriptions for a hospital for New York. In 1770, with Dr. Samuel Bard and others, he petitioned for a charter for the New York Hospital, and when the institution was opened he was made one of the attending physicians. The Revolution and the eventual destruction of the hospital by fire ended this enterprise.
When New York was captured by the British he removed to Philadelphia. Although the frailty of his health kept him from being active in the field, he is given credit for an important share in organizing the medical department of the Continental Army.
Having found the climate of Philadelphia favorable for his asthma, Jones definitely settled there in 1780, and was at once appointed attending physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital and elected president of the Humane Society. He was a personal friend of Washington, whom he attended professionally in 1790, and was the personal physician of Franklin, whom he attended in his last illness.
He published "A Short Account of Dr. Franklin's Last Illness" in the Pennsylvania Gazette and the Freeman's Journal, both of Philadelphia, 1790. When the College of Physicians of Philadelphia was formed in 1787, Jones was its first vice-president, and he contributed a paper, "A Case of Anthrax" (read posthumously), to the first volume of its Transactions (1793). A third edition of his book on wounds and fractures with the title, The Surgical Works of the Late John Jones, was brought out in 1795 by his friend Dr. James Mease.
John Jones was famous as the author, who wrote widely on his guide on wound treatment. Perhaps a greater service to his country was the publication in 1775 of his vade mecum for the native surgeons under the title Plain, Concise, Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures. Besides, he was the physician of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.
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Jones recommended such actions as removing bullets as soon as possible and cleaning wounds.
