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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![[ ] while I endeavour to look the utmofl Pene¬ tration and Sapience, and even affect a philo- fophical NegleCt of the public Admiration. This Expectation has tickled my Vanity fo exquifitely, that till I had penn’d it, I did not obferve the Digreffion; and to confefs a Secret to you, his long-lafting Small-pox gave me the firft Hint of that curious Redecompound Epithet, not-to-be-fent, which I can’t help thinking beautiful and fignificant; and fubmit it to the Philologies, whether fuch Devices •would not allay the Objections made to the great Monofyllability of our Language, and render it, in Time, as copious and round-found¬ ing as the Greek. But as the Poet fays-to fleer From gay to grave, from lively to fevere-1 (ball really, for fear of nodding over my Paper, get thro’ the Marquis of Dorcbejler’s Lethargy, as quick as poffible; as I obferve the Writer, in the very Introduction, fnores out his Ti¬ tles and Qualities in a Angle Period of a full half Page. Libera nos. We have a beautiful Inftance of the pious Simplicity of part Ages, p. 34, in the Mar- quifs’s calling for his Chaplain to read to him, when he grew lefs defirous ox Sleep; whereas we obferve moft modern Lords employ their Chaplains, chiefly from an Averfion to all other Opiates. The next Paragraph, p. 3 5, allures us, that either Bleeding, or Vomiting, or Purging, one.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078170x_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
