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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$Cm] Care to know Dr. Crowe s real Sentlmdn^ before he printed, it being certain* that he never exprefs’d himfelf in this manner: And I could alfo wifh, that a Writer, who upon all other Occafions fhews fo little Re¬ gard for Mr. R. had not fo flightly trufted to him in this Particular. But farther, is it a Proof* that the Blood in L. O.s Cafe, came originally .from the Bladder, to fay, that the Bladder fometimes bleeds? Does not the Kidney alfo fome¬ times bleed? Does not Aretceus tell us fo? How then can we know from this Paflage, whether the Blood came from the Kidney, or from the Bladder ? But, admitting the Blood to have come originally from the Bladder* does this Paf- fage prove, that the Cafe muft end fatally ? Aretceus fays, evSev n rrf s [rcTe] 3'vr\(niH- crj, jcdv [A,yi pyjidlyj vj This is no mor¬ tal Symptom, tho” it is not eafy to flop the bleeding. But it muft be own’d, Aretceus goes on and fays, AAA cRn mien ^ rri juevy o yJv$Lw@^. But in cafe of coagulated Blood, or an Inflammation, the Danger is very great. For the Confeqtfences of this lafi, Tol cfhs tviSz xciKct, the Principal of which are here enumerated/ may eafily kill. Now as Lord O. at the Time the three Phyficians were laft with him, had neither Fever, nor any other Signs of an E Inftam-$

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