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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![F 2* ] felf he reduced to Quackery or Empiricifm ? Iyr.Hele cannot deny but that this wou’d be the Coniequence. 1 muft caution him, there¬ fore,to take CVe how he talks againft Reafon- ing for the Future, leatt Inferences (hould be drawn from thence by no means to the advan¬ tage of his Chara&er 5 and leaft he (hould be thought to declaim againft Theory,only becaufe Theory is againft him. For it is an eftablifh’d Truth, at leaft amongft Phyficians, that no Man is ever againft Reafon, unlefs Reafon be firft of all againft him. REMARKS UPON Dr, Hele’s Second Letter.* IN my Remarks upon the Do&or’s for¬ mer Letter, I had chiefly occafion to con- fider the Force of his Reafoning, and the Ex- tenjivenefs of his Reading; I (hall now take Notice of his Dexterity in managing a Contro- verfy, and his ftridt Regard to Truth : In do¬ ing which, I (haft endeavour to preferve that Temper and Moderation, which the Warmth of the Doctor's Pen has •{* fometimes caufed him # See Appendix, No. 4. f The Dr. has been celebrated for the warmth of hit Pen *1* fiuce he firft commenced Author, in the Vear 1719. At](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517278_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


