A full and clear reply to Doct. Thomas Dale : wherein the real impropriety of blistering with cantharides in the first fever of the small-pox is plainly demonstrated ; with some diverting remarks on the doctors great consistence, and exquisite attainments in physick and philology / by Ja: Killpatrick.

  • James Kirkpatrick
Date:
[1938]
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Credit: A full and clear reply to Doct. Thomas Dale : wherein the real impropriety of blistering with cantharides in the first fever of the small-pox is plainly demonstrated ; with some diverting remarks on the doctors great consistence, and exquisite attainments in physick and philology / by Ja: Killpatrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [■»• ] ■Kumber, and were very obvious, and but too meeb inHam'd, when I law her at Night; whi^ was a ceitain Demonftration, that Eruption had receiv’d no Check from this Removal. But were 1 to admit, which 1 n.'> ver jcan think, that (he took Cold : I would ask the DoSor, if taking Cold ccu’d change the mild Infedion he contends for here, into the Cor> flucnce that appear’d before t^r Death; a Coi^aence, which Mr. Recbt and Mis. *PiHCtiity tud, appear’d as thick as Heaty and as thick as tard-fttdy 'as the Phrale is : Whereas he unfairly affirms, (a) they did not threaten a Confluence; till finding this notorious Falfity ib likely to be centradided, he has added fevere to it in the Margin with a Pen Sydenham and other Authors frequently impute fuch violent Degreescf this Malady, to bet R^imen, bet Weather, bet Conftitution; but ffiia is the fiift Writer that has dilcovet’d Cold to exalt the Specks of this Diieafe, by multiplying the Eruptions. But as the Event of this Mat* ter was very tragical, an Error was to be found ibme wherein the Froceed* ings; which, rather than it ffiould fall upon the Adviler of the Opera* tion, muft fall upon any thing which was done, or omitted by an* o'her Perfon. Tho’ it is lelfievident, that an inconteflable Number of Fads have prov’d the InnoceiKe of this Tranllation, and plainly concurr’d to acquit me on this Article; ^ut if (he had continued where fhe was, till fhe died, and neither the Glyfter, Anodyne, or Want of i?iifleriog could have been prov’d guilty ; then what would have remain’d, but to accole me for net moving btfy from luch an unfiniih’d, open Teoo> roent ? Having urg’d perhaps more than was necelTary, to quafli this Fart of the Acculation; it remaitts, that I reply to his Ohjedioo, from my n^> leding to blifter earlkr \ which, it feems, nothing bnt my Igneranct tetid have prevented: ^ut Which 1 ablblutely deny was nece^aryy or ev’n frefer by my /iccennty before the Morning in which I propos’d it: And certainly any Peribn of common tSienfe muft conclude, that if I proposed it .{yxbicb is not centered) when it was applied, 1 ffioidd have appl^ it before,’if 1 had leen ^ufe for it. Now when two Ferfons judge ib very oppofitely in iuch a Gale, and compliment one anotl^r with Ignorance j 'tis probable, that one at leaft df them has a Title to. the Imputation ^ and of our dtfiferenc Preteofions £i to ’<* P. 14-