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.].

  • Kirkpatrick, J. (James), approximately 1696-1770
Date:
1746
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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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    117] making the Conftitution of a Patient, an Area for the Ludlation of oppofite and con- flifting Principles ? For tho’ I make no great Account of the teftaceous Powder here, as it is none of the lixivial Alcalies, yet, it had at lead; no Propriety in this Cafe ; for granting it harmlefs in the Bowels or Tube, where its principal Effeds are ufually exerted, yet, if any cou’d be taken into the Blood, it mull rather rarify, which was not neceflary here, where I muft infer Eruption was rapid enough; and where, if it was too flow, which does not happen once in a thoufand Inftances, ex- treme Rarefadion might even further delay it, by caufing an extreme Diftention of the Surface, and ftraightening the Diameter of the excretory Duds. He informs us, p. 4, that towards the Even¬ ing of the fourth Day a few Streaks of Blood were mix’d with, and fubjided in the Urine, which he did not know but it might be caus'd by the Blifters. Here is fome Candor and Truth, in acknowledging he did not know, and the whole is exprefs’d with all the Sim¬ plicity of a good fober Matron. I will ven¬ ture, however, to aflure this fage Perfon, that it was certainly promoted at leaf by them, which he only doubted, as the Patient had little or no Strangury, This would have been no bad Reafon for his doubting the Blood’s coming immediately from fo exlanguous a Part as the Bladder, which it could not, with¬ in out