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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$' ; #■ Mr’ C- ] thought it neceffary to debate this Matter fully ; but as Things then flood, they were more attentive to the Means of affifting their noble Patient, in which they always agreed, than to difpute about what had happen'd before ; fince, let it have been one wray or the other, the Method they were now to purfue, muft have been exactly the fame. I proceed now to give you my Thoughts upon the Animadverfion made by the Au¬ thor of the Advice to Mr. R, upon the three Phyficians, and upon his Quotation from Aretaeus ; about which, I am glad to fee, that your Sentiment is the fame with mine. All three, however, fays that Author, Page io. were Jq far mijlaken, that they entertain d fome Hopes of his Recovery ; fa far were they from apprehending his Dijjo- lution to be fo near at hand. In order to clear up this Point, it will be neceffary to take notice, that on the 4th of February my Lord voided in all 32 Stones, or Pieces of Stones, and perhaps confider- ably more, which might be concealed in the Clots of Blood thrown away, before the Coagulum mentioned in Mr. R.’s Nar¬ rative, Page 17. was, at the Defire of one of the Phyficians, difolvd in a large Bafon of Water ; when about \ 5 Pieces prejYnted ihemfelves: That their coming away was attended with a large Effufion of Blood, amounting, by Eftimation, to at lead: 20 Ounces:$

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