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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![. [ >+ ] tfC living, efpecially as to Eating, and very “ rarely Perfons of a fpare Habit of Body, Ci accuftomed to a very temperate way of u Life ; whereas all over the Weft, juft the “ reverfe of this has been the Cafe It be- te gan in every Place amongft the lower fort tc of People, and the poor Manufacturers,whom c we can hardly fuppofe to have injured their “ Conftitutions by high Feeding, &c.” THIS is another of the Particulars which Dr. Hele fays arofe from Mifmanagement. I wont pretend to fay whofe Mifmanagement it was owing to, that the Fever fell chiefly upon the poorer fort of People, but I will venture to affirm, that it was neither owing to Dr. Hele s Mifmanagement, nor mine, and there¬ fore I think we ought not to concern ourfelves about it. What Share of Candour muft that Man have who will run headlong into fuch Abfurdities as thefe rather than not gratify a *W ant on Appetite of Slandering and Defaming ? THE next Sentence, which occurs in the Dr’s. Letter, having no Connexion with what went before, tho' it feems to be brought m by way of Inference, I fhall pafs it over with¬ out farther Notice, efpecially as it contains, if I underftand it rightly, an affirmation of a Propofition which I never yet denied, viz. “ that Peripneumonies, and Inf animations of the Throat, may be prevented, or relieved: by re¬ peated * Dr. Glafs, whofe excellent Work, call'd Comment, de Fe~ bribusy I have met with, fince the Publication of the Inquiry* in fpeaking of this Fever, has a PaiTage which confirms what I have faid, 'viz. JtanciJJimi prater infimutn genus hominum a fibre petechiali apud nos Grajfanle Carrepii Sunt. Pag. 135.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517278_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
