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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    [41 ] they had the Fear of God before their Eyes, and were to fpeak the Truth, the whole Truth, and no¬ thing but the Truth *, For thus it runs, Firft then, fay they, We, previous to all other Confederations, do tnojifolemnly declare, that no Prejudice, Pique, Party, or Principle of Perfection, ( fo uncharitably and un- chrijlianly laid to our Charge ) mixes in any Shape with this our Defegn. Now they ought to have borrowed a little of the Stile of an Aft of Parliament to have brought up the Rear of this folemn Proteflation. viz. Nothing in this after Treatife, of ill Names, bitter Words mod artfully and phyfically fweetned up with Compaffion, Accufations of Subornation and Perjury when peradventure the Facls lie t’other Way, infifting with the Managers of the Infirmary that Dr. Blair fhould no more attend there, enter¬ ing into a Combination of as many of the Faculty as by Threats and Promifes can be drawn in, who upon their Faith and their Honour are not to con- fult with the laid Dr. Blair *, thefe and every Thing elfe of a more contradictory Nature N O T WIT H~ STANDING. Now, as I cannot make this Affidavit of theirs and their own Words fo exactly to tally as I could have wifn’d, I mud therefore af- cribe it to my own Inability and want of Judgment rather than to any Forgctfulnefs in the Gentlemen* or to any Contradiction in the Things themfelves. I can match it, however, to you in a remarkable In- fiance of the like Kind, that happen’d a Couple of Centuries ago, and this furely ought to have its proper Weight, as according to the excellent Me¬ thod of Analogy, fo faffiionable at prefen t, a good Simile is reckoned equivalent to the beft of Argu¬ ments. In the Tear then 1527, when the City of Rome was taken by Charles V’s Armv, Poor Pope Clement Vllrh retired into the Caflle of St. Angelo, where the Emperor kept him for fome Timq G coop’d