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
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[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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    [ «i] the learned BAGLIVI fay?, in a pro^eVd T rcatife on rhe Ufe and bufe of this great Remedy. (a ) In ardint and conUnu.il FeverSy accom famed with a great AgttafwnandImfetuofity in the Bloody in a hot and dry SeafoMyin hot and ary Countries^ in ha and dry Conjlitutions ar fu :h a ^ ferfue a hot and dry Diet, or are in the T rime of the tr Tout b\ in nervou'^ Df/orders attended with Fevers that lean to the ardent Kind \ in thefpa jT modic and inflammatory Dtforders of the Breajly and [uch as proceed fro^^^^ the Ciline (harp Conftitution of the Blood, in fuch Cafes I fay^ I ha ve often obfervid that blifering Tlaiflers are noxous. And thd there is fometimes a lucid Appearance of Benefit in fuch Cafes; y(t being doult^ fulyWbether that proceeded from the Bliflers or the other Remedies f there^ fore Jeldom or never did preferibe them in tbefe Cafes \ for I us*d bap^^ pily to compafs the Cure with b^pnotick^ diluting and dulcifying Rome* dies, SometimeSy he fays, (b) Ehjiering Flaifters inflame a De]iviuin> or bafien the Arrival of an imminent Delirium, by the great Tain they occafiOH ; ar d then adds, he has feen more delirious Terjons die upon the Uje if lUifiers than ever he faw recover. There is the greater Rcaf n for infilling on this particular Authority, becaufe it is indifputable, that the Difference of Climate, <Sea(bn, tSc. which he has carefully diftinguifhed, makea different Treatment oft^u nc- ceffary in the fame Diftemper, A confiderablc Reafon for this will ap¬ pear, from compring the different Evacuations in Italy from (cJ SANC^ TORlU% with thofe obfeiv’d in England by the ingenious Do£l. KEIL and others. i5uT having mentior/d SANCTORlUSy and being on the Subjeft of Inflammations, let us hear his Commentator Deft. ^plKCTon an appp- fite Occafion; where fpcaking of an inflammatory Fever he fays, \d) * Herein all Stimuliy and whatever has a Tendency to incrcafe the Ctk- ‘ rity of the Blood, are fatal; but nothing is fodeftruftivc as Vlifiering ‘ and fpiriiuous Julaps, notwithllanding the common P raft ice runs very ‘ much this Way t And altho' feme Perfons have advanc’d Theories on < Purpofc to cftablifti it, the moll Lbour'd of which is that of Doctor * COCKBURN^ about the Operation of Cantharides ; and the Manner ^ by which they are ferviccablc in Fevers; yet the Miflakc is very ma- * nifeft both from Reafon and Experience^ as may be cafily made appear to #.Pra£iicc of Phytick^P. 5S5, fc’lbid 381. t Medici Staiici 47. dIbid 3^5..