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
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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^ ] It is remarkable, that Dr. Rogers has really had no lefs than three fucceflive Opinions, as to the Na¬ ture of this Medicine in the Courfe of the Difpute, as People of weak Eyes will only allow the Light to be increafed upon them, at certain regular Intervals of Time. For in the Beginning, he aficrted pofi- tively and without Exception, that this Tinfture was jpoifonous, which though he has fince thought it prudent to difavow, yet his Letter to Dr. Mead is a Handing Teftimony, that he was then of that Opinion, fince Dr. Mead mentions that Circu.m- ftance particularly to Dr. Blair.. “ When Dr. Ro- “ gers, fays he, wrote to me hy way of Appeal to my <c Judgment, 1 plainly told him, that though I could “ not be a Judge of all the Circumftances of Mr. Ba- cc ker’j Cafe, yet as to the Tinffura Antiphthyfica, to <c which he made his main Objection, as unfafe and a kind of Poifon, it was a Medicine which I had made <c ufe of with great Succefs for thefe fifty TearsBut I think the thing is very clear from his own Words, for unlefs he intended to prove, that this Tindhire was a Poifon, with what other Defign could it be that he laboured fo much to prove the Sugar of Lead a PoEon, as he has made a long Note about it in his Diary, for it is too glaring to be evaded, that the only Conclufion from his Premifes muft be, that he then judged that Tincture to be poifonous. Nay, in another Place of his Diary, conceiving he had Bcerhaave walking Hand in Hand with him, he goes boldly on condemning and damning this Tincture, fir ft in the Lump, and then he cuts it up, as he thinks, piece Meal, and Limb by Limb, mention¬ ing with great Bitternefs the Sugar of Lead digefted in the rettified Spirit of Wine, and then the green Vitriol in the fame Digeftion, which he had declared before to be no wholfomer than the other, and there¬ fore as ftrong a Poifon, upon which he draws this Con-