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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    [40] Bcgtee of Meat and its Efieds arc iitteft to aceomiflifh ev*n Eraptioo, in moft kindly d&dual Manner; and 'tis evident, that after Eruption (QQ>ecially in the beft Pock,which fuppurates Iboneft) the Fever, Commo¬ tion, and other violent Symptoms go off or abate of thcmfelves ; and Suppuration is beft effeded without this extreme Violence, Force and Attrition, which the Dodor will have fo itifeparable from it: But which in Truth are much oft'ner produdive of a pr^emature, ill-boding Scabbing, without a proper Suppuration. In (hort his own Incohcerences, and- what hehasrobb’d and murder’d throughout this Paragraph, are fuch preg¬ nant Inftances of that miia>nceived, rambling Readings and ill-conne£led Syjlem he talks of, that if he had intended it to exemplify the Errors he ^fign’d to reprove, there had certainly been feme Propriety and Mean¬ ing in it. But as he has attempted to glitter here, like the Daw in the Fable, and ftuck on his borrow'd Plumes as ridiculcufly, wc may tell him from Horace. ^^irfunus^ late qui ffUftdeat^ unus et alter Affuitur -- As 1 have met with no Author that furnilhcs us with a Reafon, why the Degree of this Diftemper is to be eftimated from its Appearance in the Face, tho' they have agreed to charafterize it according to its Apw pearance there ; I have thought it probable, that the moft adivc, fiery Particles of this Vims., and of the Humours aflimilated to it, will fleam up higheft, and be rais'd firft by the Heat of the Body, as the firft Run¬ nings of Spirits in an Alembic are flrong and flagrant almoft to Caufticity And that theBrtt Eruptions arc generally inpregnated with the mofl ac¬ tive and violent is farther probable, from their appearing aommoinly in fuch Parts, as from their Expofure to the Air, fhculd make the greateft Refiflance to them; rather than in others, which being kept warm, iupplc and moift by their Covering, would be likelier to attraft them, did not their exceeding Lightnefs and Aftivity naturally difpolb them to afeend. And bcfidcs fuch Puflules involving a Poyfon of more Energy, it feems likely that their very Scituation may prove a perilous Circumftance, upon a finking of the Puflules, or any Reforption of the Matter on Scabbing, (Sr. as theft exquifitely acrid ylporrhoeas are fea- ib near the Braio, and jprobably endu'd with a fufiicient Subtilty,to pervade