Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.

James Makittrick Adair

Date:: 1787

Credit: Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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phyfic, as a cobler is to preach, or a taylor to plead a caufe.* It may * The reader will fee this fubjedt fully explained, vol. I* Eflay II. It has been intimated to the author, in a tone bordering on the fupercilious, that he was guilty of mifreprefentation, when [fee P. 116, of this vol.] he alledged, that mandamus and hono- rary diplomas in phyfic were granted by the Englifh, and fome Scotilh Univerfities, to perfons who had never feen them; for that at Oxford the candidates were always prefent. But admitting that a gentleman polled down to Oxford to enjoy the conviviality of an enccenia; and having obtained his Doctor’s degree, polled back again; he might as well have been at the Cape of Good Hope, unlefs we fuppofe that the Regius ProfelTor could, by the influence of animal magnet ifm, convey to the candidate a quan- tum fuffct of his medical Ikill. Did not the Univerfity reward the impoliure of Price, the alchemical gold-finder, by fending him a Doctor’s degree? Pudet hac opprobria. There are, it is true, fome medical profelTorlhips at both Univerfities, and they are very pretty finecures; but it is within a very few years only that any attempt has been made to eredt medical fchools there. By whom ? why truly, by gentlemen who received their medical education at Edinburgh ! and yet fo ridi- culoully fupercilious and fallidious have fome phyficians bred at Oxford been, as to have peremptorily refufed figning a prefcrip- tion with graduates of Leyden and Edinburgh : but thole gentle- men have fince abated of their high pretenfions. One of the moll violent alFertors of this academical fuperiority was the late Sir William Browne, a corpulent man; and though then prefident of the college, alinolt as good a phyfician as he was a poet. Difputing, one day, with a waggilh licentiate on this fubjedl; “ Sir,” faid the Baronet, “ I am a member of both Univerfities.” ‘ I doubt it not;’replied his antagonilt: * and l once knew two cows, which bringing calves at the fame time, one of

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