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.].

  • Kirkpatrick, J. (James), approximately 1696-1770
Date:
1746
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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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    r 4-s ] of diminishing your Reputation. But I have the Joy of feeing him defeated in either Cafe. A fecond Edition, to which he probably in¬ tended to prefix his real Name, will never, ne¬ ver fee the Light. And any Purpofe he might eherifh of hurting you. Sir, is Sufficiently defeated by your eftabiifhM Character, and diffipated, ex abundantly by this Elucidation. If you Shall ferioufiy afcribe the Forgery to Malice, you will naturally refleft, what Oc- cafion you can have given for it : Whether you may have declin'd a Confultation with any Perfon of inferior Pretenfions; or whe¬ ther it may not be the finiffer Operation of Party-Rage: For as I underftand your poli¬ tical Sentiments were always for Patriotifm and your Country, in which I have the Feli¬ city to harmonize with you, poffibly fome virulent Courtier, or Whig-Phyfician may lurk at the Bottom of this malignant N onfenfe* It only remains. Sir, that I intreat your Lenity to thofe indifferent Abilities, which come very Short of my Zeal; for, though I am hopeful I have done all that is necefiary > on the Occafion, Jtis certain I have not exe¬ cuted it fully to my Wifhes. Methinks, I have felt the Contagion of his low Stupidity, and, to imitate the Laureat, have underdone my ufual Underdoings. For which Reafon, if this Animal Should have the Hardinefs to an- fwer, I Shall reply to nothing, that wears the evident Signatures of his proper Hebetude. He