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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$[ M ] he lived above three Weeks alter that time; nor did he die at laft, till after he was feiz’d with a colliquative Diarrhoea, pag. 37; which held him a Week, or eight Days; during which he had fometimes 10 or 12 Stools in the four and twenty Hours. But, we are told, there could not have been plainer Proofs of the Diflemper being in the Bladder, and of its ending fatally. And to confirm this Afiertion, inftead of drawing out of Authors antient and mo¬ dern^ Quotations to fill a Volume, a Para¬ graph is produced out <?/ Aretaeus, to difprove what Dr. Crowe has confidently afi'erted. And here I mu ft frankly own, that if any Man’s Opinion could carry fiujficient Weight againft that of a Gentleman of Dr. Croweh long Experience and known judg¬ ment, it would be that of Aretoeus> whofe Word has been depended upon for Ages pafl, and willy in molt things, not be doubted by the future. But what does Aretceus tell us in this Paffage ? A fioppciyzei kot\ dj xv^ig, The Blad¬ der fometimes bleeds. Did ever any Phyfl- cian doubt of this ? Yes, Dr. Crowe was of the Sentiment, that all Difcharges of the Blood flow’d, not from the Bladder, but entirely from the Kidneys. I could wi(h Mr. R. in dead of taking up with loofe talk, perhaps imperfectly heard, or ill underftood, had taken a little more Care$

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