Letter 4104

Turner Apologizes for his bookseller forgetting to send Sloane the book he has enclosed. Daniel Turner was admitted as a surgeon to the Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London in 1691. He participated in four dissections that were recorded and published in the Philosophical Transactions between 1693 and 1694. In 1711, after twenty years of practicing surgery, he was admitted as a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. Turner published treatises on the nature and place of surgery in medicine throughout his career and engaged in debates on the treatment of syphilis (Philip K. Wilson, Turner, Daniel (16671741), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27844, accessed 15 Aug 2013]).