A reply to Mr. Maxwell's Answer to Mr. Kirkland's Essay on fevers; wherein the utility of the practice of suppressing them, is further exemplified, vindicated, and enforced / [Thomas Kirkland].

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798
Date:
1769
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Credit: A reply to Mr. Maxwell's Answer to Mr. Kirkland's Essay on fevers; wherein the utility of the practice of suppressing them, is further exemplified, vindicated, and enforced / [Thomas Kirkland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fucceed by gentle and friendly turns, and run their rounds in appointed order of na¬ ture, fo as to cure the patient ?—Certainly the paffage immediately preceding, de~ ferves equal credit, where he fays, when he ufed bleeding, and a thin diet, with a prudent and leafonable ufe of diluting me¬ dicines, he never had a patient ill of the fmall-pox, that died under his hands [a). In fhort, we had before feen all the opinions he has brought in fupport of his arguments; but, from knowing the man¬ ner in which fome men, who judly bear the greated names, are drawn into popular doctrines, which want truth for their foundation ; after feledting their matter of faff, from their theory, and after lately having fome of the mod convincing proofs of the utility of the practice adviled, I fee no reafon to alter, but to confirm, what I have already written. Whoever has read Mr. Maxwell’s Anfwer, mud fee, that his different argu¬ ments lie drangely mixed and difperfed throughout the whole of his performance, in order, probably, to make a reply more difficult j but I have at lad methodized (a) Mr. Maxwell has quoted this paffage in part, p. 62. but the reader is dehred to confult the original, chap. 12. fed. 7. them.