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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$. t J9 ] - ' when it pour'doff to the Terror of his Triends It is acknowledg’d, the Proceeding on thi^ Occahon, in another Method (than I fuppofe he had done thro’ the Courfe of theDileafe) was rational, and contain’d fom e good Receipts, which are authenticated, as he calls it, p. oy Sydenham, Fuller, and others, who ac¬ tually underflood this Dileafe, and were real Phyficians. Had we been acquainted with his whole Procefs throughout the Diffemper perhaps, it had not been difficult to conjedure the Caufe of the Return of the bloody Urine, after it had been fufpended by the Spirit of Vitriol. r The Conciufion of this Letter and Cafe confifts of two extraordinary Paragraphs, which, for Language, Strudure and Cohe¬ rence exceed moft I have feen, and introduce us, in due Form, to his fecond and third Cade, in his fecond Letter to M~t~nF~k~s Efq; in Vindication, as he fays, of the fore¬ going Cafe. . does not appear from the Pamphlet. t>\\, that any Writer had impugn’d, or criti¬ cis’d on the foregoing Cafe, before the Publi¬ cation of thefe Papers, I admir’d how this fecond Letter came to be wrote in Vitidica- tion of it: Neither was my Surprize much abated, when I found it was no Vindication at all; but plainly confefs’d, after lamenting tne Omiflion of the Pifs, that the Cafe mifi rfl upon the bare Relation, as it doef barely, 2 enough.$

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