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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![[49] calculated to deceive. It does not follow, becauje a Perjon recovers after the Ufe oj am particular Remedy, that his Recovery mujl be owing to that Remedy, efpecially if more than One have been made Ufe of This I obferv’d, in the Inquiry, tho’ Dr. Hele has not been pleafed to take any Notice of it. To apply this to the Cafe before Us ; Mr. Hillman recover'd after Bleeding, it does not follow that his Recovery was owing to the Bleeding, No more than it does, that Tenter ton Steeple was the Caufe of the Goodwins Sands, becaufe it was prior in time to thofe Sands. BUT it may be laid, that I have no more Reafon to impute Mr. Hillman’s Recovery to Blifiers, Diaphoreticks, &c. than others have to attribute it to Bleeding. I grant it, con- fidering the Matter upon the Footing of Ex¬ perience only. But when Experience will not decide a Queftion we mu ft then have Recourfe to Reafon to affift Us. For inftance, a Per- fon is feized with an Epidemick Fever, is bled three Times, without finding any real Relief, or Benefit, he is afterwards thrown into a co¬ pious Sweat, is bled again, and bliftered• The next Day he finds himfelf much better, and by Degrees recovers. The Event alone in fuch a Cafe will not (hew what the Recovery was owing to ; But Reafon will tell us that, fince Bleeding had been tried fo often with¬ out Succefs, it was, moft probably, owing to the other Remedies. THE Queftion therefore, what Mr. Hitl- mans Recovery was owing to, cannot be de¬ cided](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517278_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
