Thomas Brugis (

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1640?) was an English surgeon.

Biography

Brugis was born probably between 1610 and 1620, since he practised for seven years as a surgeon during the civil wars. He does not record upon which side he served. He obtained the degree of doctor of physic, though from what university does not appear, and settled at

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, where he describes himself as curing "(by God's help) all sorts of agues in young and old, and all manner of old sores that are curable by art". Brugis wrote ''The Marrow of Physicke'', London, 1640, 4to; and ''Vade Mecum, or a Companion for a Chirurgion'', of which the first edition appeared, London, 1651, 12mo, and the seventh 1689, in the same size. The popularity of this little book shows that it must have been useful, but there is nothing original in this or in the earlier work. Perhaps the only notable thing in the ''Vade Mecum'' is a small contribution to forensic medicine, in the shape of rules for the reports which a surgeon might have to make before a coroner's inquest. Even this is partly taken from

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; but we know of nothing like it in any earlier English book.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brugis, Thomas Year of birth missing Year of death missing 17th-century English medical doctors 17th-century surgeons English surgeons People from Rickmansworth