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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![[16 ] which Blifters, efpecially if affifted by his noggifi Regimen, (which they might be, as no Regimen is fpecify’d here) had a diredt Ten¬ dency to promote,or procure,the bloodyUrine which enfued. But I am the lefs furpriz’d at this Simpleton’s blundering with Blifters here, as Men of very different Abilities and Qualifications have certainly err’d in the Ap¬ plication of them, in this Difeafe. To give one Inftance : The learned Dr. Frewin, in a Latin Letter to Dr. Friend, informs him, that a Gentleman, among other Symptoms of the Small-pox, had a Delirium, which lafted three Days, notwithjlanding the Application of ten Blifters. Now three Days are a long and unufual Duration for a Delirium, before Eruption; and it appears pretty clearly to me, that the Applications us’d to remove it, extended it > and that the Omiflion of them, and the Lofs of a proper Quantity of Blood, with a Glyfter, or Lenient, perhaps, would have greatly fhorten’d it, and have render’d the fubfequent Symptoms gentler than they prov’d. But to return to this fame Dodtor; what uniform Intention could he pofiibly pur- fue, by firft cooling and relaxing with Bleed¬ ing ; .then increafing Tenfion, Inflammation, and Fufion, by three Blifters; then cooling, and, perhaps, condenfing with Nitre; then at¬ tempting to warm and rarify by Pulvis e che- Us ? Is this curing Difeafes, and being the : Handmaid of Nature, or diftradting her, and t making:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078170x_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
