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John Douglas (died 25 June 1743) was an eminent lithotomist. He was the author of several medical controversial treatises, criticising the works of Chamberlain, Chapman, and Cheselden, most of which are now forgotten.
His book on lithotomy was translated into French in 1724.
Douglas, John. A dissertation on the venereal disease. Wherein a method
of curing all the stages of that distemper will be communicated, and
confirmed by several Instances of Success from the least to the greatest
Degree of Infection: without the help of any Mercurial Drenches, Vomits,
or Fumigations; without Injections or Astringents of any Sort; without
Escharoticks, Causticks, hot Irons, &c. so solemnly recommended by many
Authors; and above all, that Opprobrium Chirurgorum, a Salivation will
in all Cases be avoided. By John Douglas, Surgeon, F.R.S. London:
printed for and sold by the author, in Lad-Lane near Guild-Hall,
MDCCXXXVII. [1737].
Douglas, John. A dissertation on the
venereal disease. Wherein the opinions of the antient writers, about the
use of mercurial frictions, are examined; ... Part II. By John Douglas,
Surgeon, F.R.S. London: printed for, and sold by the author, 1737.
Douglas, John. A dissertation on the venereal disease. Wherein the
safety, and surprising good effects of our method (when managed with
judgment) not only in all the stages of this distemper, but also in the
Gout, Leprosy, Scald Heads, Stiff Joints, &c. &c. will be farther
confirm'd by many rare and remarkable cases; the constant Danger, and
frequent bad Consequences of strong mercurial Purges, racking Vomits,
&c. will be yet more fully explain'd; and the too frequent practice of
hurrying People into a Salivation for trifles exposed, &c. in answer to
The bitter Invectives, false Insinuations, and gross Misrepresentations
of our Salutary Process, &c. contain'd in a late virulent Pamphlet
sign'd by Dr. T-r, for Self and Company. Part III. By John Douglas,
Surgeon, F.R.S. London: printed for the author, behind the Treasury in
Downing-Street; and sold by Mrs. Mitchel, Stationer, in King's-Street,
West-Minster; and Mr. Corbett Bookseller, in Fleet-Street. Where the
First or Second Part may be had, [1739].
Douglas, John. A short
account of mortifications, and of the surprizing effect of the bark, in
putting a stop to their progress, &c. By John Douglas, Surgeon, F. R. S.
London: printed for John Nourse, at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, 1732.
Douglas, John. A short account of the state of midwifery in
London, Westminster, &c. Wherein An effectual Method is proposed, to
enable the Midwomen to perform their office in all cases, (excepting
those few where instruments are necessary) with as much Ease, Speed, and
Safety, as the most dexterous Midmen: Whereby women and children's
falling Victims to the Ignorance of Midwomen, so loudly complained of by
Chamberlen, Giffard, and Chapman, may for the future be prevented, &c.
By John Douglas, Surgeon, F. R. S. London: printed for and sold only by
the author in Lad-Lane, near Guild-Hall, M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736].
Douglas, John. A short dissertation on the gout. Wherein the universal
fear of doing anything to ease or cure it, (instilled in people's heads
by both antient and modern writers) will be proved to be a mere
bug-bear, a groundless supposition, a vulgar error, &c. and a safe
method of relieving the most violent pains, shortening the fit, and
lengthening the intervals, will be proposed, and confirmed by several
cases. By John Douglas, Surgeon, F. R. S. London: printed for the
author, in Downing-Street, Westminster; and sold by Mr. Wood, in
Cornhill, and Mr. Corbett, in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.XLI. [1741].
Douglas, John. A syllabus of chirurgical operations. ... By John
Douglas, ... London: printed for J. Chandler, 1727.
Douglas,
John. A syllabus of what is to be perform'd in a course of anatomy,
Chirurgical operations, and bandages. By John Douglas, Surgeon. London:
printed for Tho. Woodward, next Door but one to Temple-Bar in
Fleet-Street, 1719.
Douglas, John. Animadversions on a late pompous
book, Intituled Osteographia: or, The Anatomy of the Bones. By William
Cheselden Esq; Surgeon to Her Majesty. F. R. S. Surgeon to St. Thomas's
Hospital; And Member of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris. By John
Douglas Surgeon, F. R. S. London: printed for and sold only by the
author in Lad-Lane, near Guild-Hall, M.DCC.XXXV. [1735].
Douglas,
John. Lithotomia Douglassiana: or, a new method of cutting for the
stone; first practised by John Douglas Surgeon, F. R. S. And Lythotomist
to the Infirmary at Westminster: To which is added, what has been
written by the most Judicious Rossetus, and the learned Pietreus, on the
same subject. Illustrated with several copper plates. London: printed
for C. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Lacy, between the Temple
Gates, Fleet-Street, and J. Clarke, at the Bible under the Royal
Exchange, Cornhill, 1723.
Douglas, John. Lithotomia Douglassiana:
or, an account of a new method of making the high operation, in order to
extract the stone out of the bladder. Which is much easier to the
Patient, much sooner done by the Operator, and the Cure much more
certain, than after any of the other Methods now in Use. By which also,
several of the most dismal Consequences of the common Operations are
entirely prevented, such as incontinency of Urine, Impotency, Fistula's,
&c. Invented and successfully perform'd by John Douglas, surgeon.
London: printed for Tho. Woodward, next Door but one to Temple-Bar,
MDCCXX. [1720].
Douglas, John. The cornutor of seventy-five.
Being a genuine narrative of the life, adventures, and amours, of Don
Ricardo Honeywater, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Madrid,
... Written originally in Spanish, by the author of Don Quixot; and
translated into English, by a graduate of the College of Mecca in
Arabia. London: printed by J. Cobham, [1748?].
Douglas, John.
The cornutor of seventy-five. Being a genuine narrative of the life,
adventures, and amours, of Don Ricardo Honeywater, Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians at Madrid, Salamanca, and Toledo; and President of
the Academy of Sciences in Lapland. Containing, Amongst many other
diverting Particulars, his Intrigue with Dona Maria W-s, of Via
Vinculosa, anglice, Fetter-Lane, in the City of Madrid. Written
originally, in Spanish, by the author of Don Quixot, and translated into
English by a graduate of the College of Mecca in Arabia. London: printed
for J. Cobham, near St. Paul's, [1748].
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