An account of a medical controversy in the city of Cork, in which five physicians are engaged; with the remarkable manner of its being hitherto conducted : To which are subjoined two letters from Dr. Mead and one from Dr. Frewin, to the different persons concern'd.
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of a medical controversy in the city of Cork, in which five physicians are engaged; with the remarkable manner of its being hitherto conducted : To which are subjoined two letters from Dr. Mead and one from Dr. Frewin, to the different persons concern'd. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[U] he has not confider’d that thefe excellent Goods of his, if not ufed with Di fere t ion, are liable to go to pieces by being overloaded. Bat again I muft in¬ form you, that there are Prefumptions, and thofe not one or two but feveral, which make it out to me very evident, that it does not appear, that even Dr. Rogers himfelf confidered that Night as a critical Night notwithftanding all he has fince faid to the contrary. For firfl, tho he has been often called upon, he has not thought it proper to fhew that he ever faid that Evening to Phyfician, Friend, or Servant, that, that Night would be a critical Night. For his faying, expoft fadlo, that he then thought fo, is evi¬ dence to nobody ; becaufe had he thought fo, it was highly incumbent upon him to have informed the Phyficians of it, as well as comforted the Family with that remarkable Circumftance, and as he did neither of thefe two Things that Night, it is to me fufficient Proof, that he did not think there was a Crifis approaching. Again, Mr. Newcomen has declared in his Certi¬ ficate, what is indeed well known to the Family, That the other three Phyficians having come to Mr. Baker’s Lodging fome Time before Dr. Rogers, and being afked, What they thought of Mr. Baker ? refus’d giving their Opinion till Dr. Rogers came, and after being in Confultation with Dr. Rogers, (for whofe Judgment, it is fufficiently known, they had the greateft Deference) they then came down, and told the Family, with the utmoft Concern, that poor Mr. Baker had been given over, and that they did not expeft he would furvive that Night; befides, when he himfelf came down, and was afked his Opinion, as he owns in his Diary, by a Crowd of People, he refufed giving any Anfwer, becaufe, as he there mentions, he had comforted the Family above](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531111_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
