A letter to Dr. Thomson in answer to the Case of the Right Honourable Thomas Winnington Esq / By William Douglas.

  • Douglas, William, 1711 or 1712-
Date:
1746
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Thomson in answer to the Case of the Right Honourable Thomas Winnington Esq / By William Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bis bad a Certainty. I will venture to affirm and prove, that you have gone on in a very regular, uniform Courfe of Ignorance ; I arn now about to prove it in one Cafe, I could prove it in more, and the World begin to agree, it could be proved in mod or all. Part of your next Paragraph fhall be taken Notice of by and by; at pre- fent I ffiall .confine myfelf to your Ob- fervation, ^ that an implicit Belief in the Virtue of a Diploma^ is ften the heft Security for the Reputation of the Do5ior; I could fur^ nifh feme illujlrious Examples in Support of ihisT'ruth', fo can I, Sir, and none can be more illuftrioufly fo than yourfelf. Had not you thought it the bejl Security for the Repti^ tation of the DoBor^ you would not have feared the Town with fo ftrange and out- landifh a Title as Profyndic of Padua. A Profyndic muft certainly be a great Man! However, the Title fuits well, and becomes you. Uncommon Titles fuit uncommon Men. I cannot enter on the Examination of the Cafe till I have aflerted, that the magical CharaBers (I fuppofe you mean the Q^ti- ties of Medicine) of a modern Prefeription^ are fo far from being too myfterious for com'- mon Apprehenfon^ that they are learnt in as little Time as the Reader has employed in ^ Pag. 7.