A letter to the real and genuine Pierce [sic] Dod, M.D. plainly exposing the low absurdity, or malice, of a late spurious pamphlet, falsely ascrib'd to that learned physician. With a full answer to the mistaken case of a natural small-pox, after taking it by inoculation / ... By Dod Pierce, M.S. [i.e. J. Kirkpatrick, etc. pseud.].
- James Kirkpatrick
- Date:
- 1746
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to the real and genuine Pierce [sic] Dod, M.D. plainly exposing the low absurdity, or malice, of a late spurious pamphlet, falsely ascrib'd to that learned physician. With a full answer to the mistaken case of a natural small-pox, after taking it by inoculation / ... By Dod Pierce, M.S. [i.e. J. Kirkpatrick, etc. pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *3 ] fuch a Cuftom has juftly prevail’d, as we fee in the celebrated Dr. Friend's Works. But a little Reflection taught me, there might be Prudence in this Omifiion. Perhaps it might not be very eafy to perfuade a Phyfi- vcian to allow it, cou’d you Sir? Befldes, it is not to be fuppos’d he could edify any of them as much as a Gentleman, who never profefs- ed the Science 5 and indeed they mufl be amazingly qualify’d, if he could tell them more than they knew, or half as much. But to Bufinefs. He tells us in his firft Cafe, P. 3, that notwithstanding the Eruption of the Small Pox, April 25th 1746, nothing almofi would ftay on the Patient’s Stomach; by which, 1 fuppos’d at firft, he endeavour'd to mean, that Scarcely any thing would ftay on it: but this nothing almojl being emphatically printed, made me imagine I had not fully comprehended it. The natural Order of the Words mufl: intend, that Nothing would al¬ mojl ftay on his Stomach, but not quite; fo that nothing mufl: not be taken here in a pri¬ vative, but a material Senfe; and then it will mean, that the Po?npholix> or Nihil of the Shops, fat eafier with him than any thing elfe, tho’ that too was rejected: but this, which makes bare Meaning of it, appears to be very extraordinary Practice, and might have been left aenigmatically exprefs’d. But the next Line is left ambiguous, where it is faid, his Head likewije was very delirious. It •](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078170x_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
