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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![[42 ] which, I thought, was meant a Pulfe that was Jinking and unfleady ; for fuch the Pulfe ap¬ pear’d to me to be. —-The Appellation, indeed, was new to me, and tho* I hive con- fulted Galen, concerning the Difference of Puljes, fince that Time, 1 have not been able to meet with any Defcriprion of it ; tho’ that laborious Writer has taken Notice of no lefs, than Fifty different kinds of Pulfes. It has been obferved long ago (*), that a Perfon ought to be skilled in Mufick,and even in Geo¬ metry, before he can perfedly underhand the Pulfe ; but what Profejfton or Science, will bell Qualify a Man to underhand a Tumbling Pulje, I do not pretend to fay. I did nor, indeed, make any mention of the Tumbling Pulfe in my De- fcription of Mr. Hillman s Cafe, for a Reafon which the Sagacious Reader will eafily find out. I cannot difmifs this Subjed without taking Notice of the Notable Anticlimax which Dr. Hele has fallen into,in hating this third Query; for he asks, whether it was not allow'd by Both the Phyjicians, and by the Apothecary too,that the Pulfe was fuller &c. than it had been at all ? I could not help thinking, when I read this Query, on thofe two celebrated Lines, which are taken Notice of by Mr. Addison ; Not only London ecchoes with thy Fame, But alfo IJlington has heard the fame. I wont pretend to penetrate into the Dodor’s Motive for paying this Compliment to the Apo¬ thecary's Judgment in the Art of Pulfe feeling. But 1 muff fay that he has paid but an in¬ different Cierc Hiltoire de la Mcdecine. pag. 322.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517278_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
