A defence of a late treatise intitled, An inquiry into the nature, cause and cure, of the present epidemick fever. In answer to the objections of Dr. Henry Hele. In which the rise and progress of the controversy, on this subject, is explain'd. Together with an appendix. Containing, all the papers, relating to it, which have hitherto been printed ... / [John Barker].
- John Barker
- Date:
- 1743
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A defence of a late treatise intitled, An inquiry into the nature, cause and cure, of the present epidemick fever. In answer to the objections of Dr. Henry Hele. In which the rise and progress of the controversy, on this subject, is explain'd. Together with an appendix. Containing, all the papers, relating to it, which have hitherto been printed ... / [John Barker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fame a manner, as he has taken Leave of me-*. I have heard it obferv’d, and (I think) very ]uftly, that when a Man once commences Au¬ thor, he waves, of Courfe, all the Privileges, which He might otherwife lay claim to, on ac¬ count of his Superior Age, or Rank, the Tin¬ gle Advantage which one Writer has over ano¬ ther confiding in his having more Truth and Reafon on his Side-Dr. Hele having put himfelf, then, upon a Footing of Equality with Me, by commencing Author, I (hall confider him in that Light j and, as it will not be expedted from me that I fhould treat the Let¬ ter-Writer withfo much Ceremony as I fhould the ‘Polite, the Learned, and the Judicious Dr. Hele, (for whom many of my Readers, with^ out doubt, have conceived as profound a Ve¬ neration as I have my Self) I (hall proceed, without any farther Preface, to an Examination of his Letters 5 in coniidering which I (hall ob- ferve the only Order which the Subjedt will ad¬ mit of, namely, the Order in which the Para¬ graphs follow one another. 1 Have already obferv’d what gave Occafion to the Dover’s firft Letter (•f*) Pie there fets cut with faying, <c I do not know at whom u Dr. Barker points, in his Letter to you, Cf (viz. the 1printer of the Salisbury Journal.) And in the very next Line, he ieems con- feious that I pointed at Him, for he adds, s< but you may acquaint him that I have re- * See the Conclufion of his Second Letter. Appendix . No. 4. f See the IntrodaQion. a commended](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517278_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
