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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![[ -3 ] nemlly Sizey M Now fuppofing thefe two Gentlemen to have feen a few Inftances of Per- fons, whofe Blood was Sizey, would this be a Proof that the contrary State of Blood was owing to Mifmanagement ? No Body, but fuch a Reafoner as the Letter-writer, I believe, wou’d fay fo. For the Blood was generally found to be in this diflolved, and broken State, in the very Beginning of the Difeafe, before any Medicine had been ufed. AND, indeed, I never heard of any Fhy- licians, except Dr. Hele, and his Favourite Mr. Cox, who would venture to bleed their Pa¬ tients after the Difeafe had continued any length of Time. THE contrary State of Blood indeed very often arifes from Mifmanagement, and a Lentor of Blood, which has fometimes been miftaken for an inflammatory Size, may be produced by Bleeding; as happen’d in Mr. Hillman's Cafe, whofe Blood did not appear to have the leaft Size upon it, till the fourth Bleeding; which made me fay in the Inquiry, that there was no inflammatory Size upon it. TO come now to the feeond Particular, in which the Fever defcribed in the Obfervatmis, and the Weft Country Fever differ’d : The following Paffage,from the Inquiry I hope, will fliew whether this Difference was owing, to Mifmanagement or not. In London, ac- u cording to the Obfernations, The Fever <c chiefly invaded People of a fanguine Ha« y bit in the prime of their Lives, ufed to good D 2 living*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517278_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
