A Mechanical Surgeon
A VALIANT sailor, that had lost his leg formerly in the wars, was
nevertheless, for his great prudence and courage, made captain of a
ship; and being in the midst of an engagement, a cannon bullet took off
his wooden supporter, so that he fell down. The seamen immediately
called out for a surgeon. Confound you all, said he, no surgeon, no
surgeon,--a carpenter! a carpenter!