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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![t M- ] is impoffible to exprefs any thing more pre- cifely than this, as it prevents the Reader from imagining, there was any Delirium or Orgafm of a very different Part, which, in certain Stages of Life, is apt to be very tenfe and ungo¬ vernable, and, as we fay proverbially, to have no Forecafi. It follows, in Italics, he was therefore oblig'd to be blooded, which, I fup- pofe, is to intimate, that but for this Deli¬ rium he had not been oblig'd with it, tho* he in¬ forms us afterwards, The Small-pox were very numerous, and of a rank, angry Sort, as he thinks they are generally in Weft-India Con- Jlitutions; which is not fpecifying any Con- ftitution, as their Conftitutions differ as much, with Regard to this Difeafe, as Englijh Con¬ ftitutions. And the Author obferves, p. 21, cThat while many die of it here, others walk about the Streets under Eruption. In my humble Opinion, the Symptoms and Confti¬ tutions, that threaten us with the feverer Degrees of this Difeafe, urge the greater Ne^ ceffity of bleeding, tho* there had been no De¬ lirium; efpecially, as the Patient had over¬ heated himfelf before. However, we are agreed the Bleeding was proper -y and if it had been in a large Quantity, in this over-heated Weft- India Confutation of Sixteen Tears of Age, it would be ftill better. But the direcft Applica¬ tion of three Blifters after it appears, to me, utterly wrongheaded and pernicious, and might poffibly occafion the Exhibition of the Nitre to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078170x_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
