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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    [ »4 ] lou8 Poifon 15 yet in theMals,. perhaps the moft improper Countervenom in the World for it ST DENHAM T^ J n^^^hat the fPontaneous Apptar^vet of Blifttrs in tbit Dt/eafiy which contain’d a jL^mph like toofe excited by Canthirides, was ever a mortal Sien, and that the Tarts btheatb them were gangren’d, (h) And MORTON gives as fame inftances where this violent Acrid'iy of the ^rum bod f reduc’d a Caries of the very Bones. In (hort, if f cJ SaffroHy and cv'n Marigolds and burnt Hartjborn be fo often j-iftly culpable in this State of the Difcaic, can wc realbnably fuppofe Cantharides uleful ? And if fuch a notable Benefit re^ Tulted fiom i^lifters in this Malady, in how fccure a Condition mu(V theie Patients be, who were neatly flead by it? But what Encouragement have we from the general Event of fuch Cafes, to imitate this fatal Aj- peaMPCc by Ait! BOERHAAVE\{\ h;s Inftitutionsobfcrvcs,(</)/A4/ too ^reat a Mjt',on of the Fluids,thro’ the circu!ating.fei reting and excreting Veffels,indicate a lefjening that Exerfsy wh ch is effeoled ty <*Removal of tb‘ Stimulus irrita¬ ting the Fihres,or hy a Correflibn of it fy Things of contrary Qualities; f. C'indiy, by I [fening the Quantity of the HnmourSy and tls rdly, by pro¬ curing Rejl W’th Opiates And accordingly wc find in his Practice on this Dilealc, he never recommends Blifters in this State j nor ventures fur¬ ther than (e) Applications o( Yeaft,Rue,Muftard-leed,Salt and Vinegar to the Hams and Soles of the Feet, to divert the Ma't.r from the Head • which are lb little ftimulant, as to be whokfomc in our dai y Food, and yet will blifter feme thin Skins; It never enter’d into the Head of this moft judicious Phyfician and confiftent Writer, to oppofe this acrid Sti¬ mulation, and abate this cxccffive Heat and Motion, by one of the moft aciid, heating Applications in Medicine. Bat fince it may happen, that a Medicine not inlicatcJ , or ev*n con¬ traindicated by the real Dilcaie, may yet be well warranted from tic Urgency offomc violent Symptom, as HEURNlUd fays, ff J Becaufe a principal Regard muft be bad for a vehement Circumjlancey let us fiiithcr enquire, if the Symptoms here rationally demanded fuch an Appli- catioa Indeed this Obj.-dion feems already pretty folidly obviated; however, to give it the greateft Scope, and to enable us to conclude with the greateft phyfical CeiUinty in this important Foint, let us hear what B 4 , the I*. lOli ^ Hiftor: Variol: cW^t Sjitnhum i In(licar« 14e Formul; Remed 040.