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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ 3* ] with a Syringe in their Pocket, which is no uncommon Symptom. No Difeafe likewife in which there is more of a Crifis than in the big Pox, being got and given at a Crifis, or feveral critical Minutes, by the Critics themfelves—The Diftempers having no further Analogy, except in their Scabs and Scars, you fee. Sir, I am forc'd to difcontinue the Parody, and return to Bufi- nefs. This Author makes his learned Dr. Brown nearly as profound as himfelf, in difcovering, P. 23, that if it was not for the Fever, not near fo many would die of the Difeafe ; And if it was not for a Fever, a certain phyfical Axiom fays, no body at all would die. Nemo moritnrfine Fehre. But whoever may imitate Dr. Brown's Prefcription of Bark in the firffc Fever, that brings them out, according to his own Confefiion, I dare fay, neither you Sir, nor any Phyfician in his Senfes will; lince all the variolated Particles,not difdharg’d by bleed¬ ing, muft neceffarily be expell’d to the Sur¬ face pro morbi genio> or finally fphacelate the Vifcera , *f- The great Bo-erhaave Teem’d too cautious to en- terprize that total Prevention of Eruption in this Difeafe, which he ingeniously fuggefted; and which muft jerioufly be allow’d to clafh too much with the plain Intention of Nature in it. ’Tis TufRcient that a judi¬ cious Ufeof the Antiphlogiftic Method may very fre¬ quently prevent a violent Degree of this Diftemper. But as it is impoffible to be certain of wholly withdrawing the variolous Smina and Pabulum, without an entire :](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078170x_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
