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

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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$[ *5 ] to attemper their burning Salts, and the Pul- vis e chel. comp. might be thought of to qua¬ lify the Nitre again. What is this but blow¬ ing hot and cold with the fame Breath ? This Author’s Practice is really as enigmatical as bis Stile : I have read of the hot and of the cool Regimen in the Small-pox, this is neither, but both, as the Epitaph of JEha Lcelia fays. Firft, Bleeding is luckily inftituted (Thanks to the wife Delirium) which has a manifeft Tendency before Eruption, or before ’tis com-, pleat, certainly to leflen the Number of Puf- tules, by withdrawing a Quantity of the va¬ riolated Particles, in Proportion to the Blood taken away; befides which, it leaves the Sur¬ face more relax’d and open, for the eafy Tranf- miffion of the remaining infedted Particles: And, by a very judicious Conduct in this Mat¬ ter, it appears more than probable, that a con¬ fluent Infedtion may be brought to a coherent, a coherent to a diftindt Pock. But after t^is cooling, relaxing, and evacuating Anodyne, as I may call it, has taken Place, are we not di- redtly deftroying itsEffedts, by applying three Bliflers, whofe known EfFedts are to increafe Heat and Tenfion, to {Emulate, and not to fubfiradt any of the variolous Blood, but to leffen and parpen the Lymph, that is to di¬ lute the Poifon, to ferve as a Vehicle in con- veying the infedted Globules thro’ the excre¬ tory Dudts, and to feed and fuftain the Puf- tules to their neceffary Maturation? And which$

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