Volume 1

A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe].

  • William Wagstaffe
Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ gS ] But you never Puzzled and Bambou- xitd, their Purging Method fo effectua.,y, as by your acurate Calculation-of the Bids of Mortality, and by demomtrating how the Numbers of the Deceas’d m this Difeafe are augmented, for theje law tight Pears, in Comparifon with the former. ■ For, as few of them are appris d, even of the common Rules of Arithmetick, bv this, i hope, they will be convinc d ot irhe Advantage of being educated Accomp- tants, which they have fo haughtily de- fots’d, and that it is of more Importance to be vers’d' in the Ledger-Book of the Mo¬ derns, than in the Writings of the Ana, ms. Befides, as they are acquainted lit¬ tle with the Hiftory of Difeafes, they are the lefs capable of deiefting the rah iacy, you have put upon them : They will forget to tell you that the Small rox, from the Kind that rages, and many 'ctherProperties and Accidents, is, in Spig t of all the Methods of Praftice, v always more fevere in one certain Space oi l me than in another, and that your City is prodigioufly1 increas’d both in Buildings and Inhabitants. ■ .. • Again, you are foextenfive m your Man¬ ner of reprehending, all the Cafes they have given, that they can never evade or anfwe it : They are as, you fay judicioufly, ei¬ ther too^ Long, or too Shorty too Clear,