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*] YOUR Kindnefs to me in my late Hlnefs,will never be forgotten, and 1 (hall never negled to declare that your Behaviour was like a Friend, your Advice like a good Phyficiaris, your Reafons for oppolipg Bleeding, 1 am confident, were fuch as upon mature Confideration, you thought advifeable from the Nature of my Cafe, and the Obiervadons you had made from Pa¬ tients in the like Circumftances, And altho’ I impute my recovery to Bleeding, I am as much obliged to you as to my other Pbyjicians, and 1 (hould be very unhappy if I (hou’d ever for¬ feit that Friendfhip and Efteem which you have always (hewn to your obliged, &nd humble Servant, W. Hillman, •ft * ? . r'. ■ fib : / ' ’ . P. S. <c I this Morning receiv’d a Letter from Dr. Hele, with fome Queries relating to ?ny Caji\ which he defires may be kept Secret fome Days ; as 1 (hall always ad: as if you were prefent, you may depend upon my Caution.-1 gave you a Copy of the Letter I fent him, but I forget, Whether I Laid in yours Miftakes or Mifrepre- jents, for it is the latter in his Letter/' I leave the Reader to make what Com¬ ment he (hall think proper on thefe Letters. THUS, I think, Mr. Hillman has fairly ac¬ quitted me from the Charge of mifreprefentiug Facts, and, indeed, never fo much as intended to accufe me of it,tho’ he has been unwarily drawn into do it, in Appearance, Whether, or no,I was miftaken](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517278_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
