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

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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$[ *3 ] afide the principal Thing he had prefcribed after his joining his three Brethren ; in order therefore to juftify himfelf, he threatens in his Diary, and talks indeed, as if he was juft proceeding to prove the Paradox, 46 That pure Port Whey was lefs fiery and cc intoxicating, than Water Sack Whey. But while you are expe&ing the Detail of the Proof, he wheels, and makes a hidden Afcent from the Na¬ ture of Wheys, to that of Wines ; of which he talks very fyftematically, under the two States, of Pit* rity and Impurity. In the impure State, he fays, red Port Wine is only primed with Brandy, where¬ as Canary which is firft, according to him, white Lijhon, has a full Charge of Brandy poured upon it, with fome fweetning Additions. But in the Ac¬ count of the genuine State of both the Wines, he talks of the a&ive Salts, and the effential Oils, with a large Portion of folar Rays, as being the Stamina of Canary Wine, and e contra of the vaftNumber of watry Particles, which make up the Port Wine ; which imaginary Theory, is the more ridiculous, as it runs quite loofe of the Queftion \ for it is evi¬ dent, that the beft chymical Account that can be given of the two Wines, could never make it ap¬ pear, that pure original Port Whey without Water, is a Drink more cool and diluting than Canary Whey when it is made with a large Quantity of Water. But as Dr. Rogers was refolved to pufti at this at any Rate, he condemns it, firft as a cool flxppery Drink in one Place, and then, by an un¬ lucky Overfight, attacks it as hot and intoxicating in another. Which Inconfiftency had laid him open to a Joke of Dr. Blair, who obferves in his Cafe, that the other learned Doftor in the true Spirit of a controverfiai Writer, was equally pre¬ pared to prove either Side of the Queftion, by way of fhewing the vaft Reach of his Faculties, and the r different$