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.

  • Kirkpatrick, J. (James), approximately 1696-1770.
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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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    [4. ] pervade, like Lightning, tljc Bodies inclofing that noble Organ, *hc Je« licate Texture of which muft be fuddcnly diifolv'd by luch a forcible Ve- flotn; or ev'n the very Spirits Iccretcd there, may be dire^JIy extingoifh’d by its inimical Operation. Somcthii^ of this Nature feems very likely in thole Cafes, where Perfons in a hopeful Way of recovering from this Pileafe, have been unexpededly attack'd with (^vulltoas, and fuddenly carried off. But this, it muft be coofeis'd, is digrelfing a little from tlM Doflor. His Sneer abdut the little Opiate is plainly taken from my lelf; but had it been a little more, who knows but he might have call’d that the Inftrunnient of Fate ; which would have created a proper Indication for his Blifters too. Had it been his Preicription, it had been right, but 'twas Cb’f-in-Terridgt in another Hand. But he makes me amends for all at laft, by concluding me to be, what l have not admitted-him, a barmlefs DeSior, 'Tis well that Nature may have a Chance for fair Play l(me> times; and when all Matters come to be rightly coniider’d, *tis pofOblea HARMLESS DOCTOR may turn cpt none of the Woift, But we (hall have little Realbn to be liirpriz’d at any of ftrde fdafa {^yftcal Inconfiftencies, if we confider that one of the firft Judges of hleis and Letters aifa res us, that. Good'fcnfe is the very Fouo^tion of good W riting. Scr'ibtndi reEit Japtrt eif 65 Trineifmm 65 Fonst Tbeti bow indi^il* fably requiftte muft it be for the Attainment of Science, whi^ ftia gination is cautioufly to be employ’d, and often avr^ed; but the jodgit^ comparing, diftii^uilhing Faculties habituaDy exercis’d, -aqd ever clear f This goM native Apprehenfion leems really to ftaod in the fame Rda* tion to true Science, that Charity does to Rdigion; tbcfc can be no* thing more than the Form of either, without the other’s Gncorrcim : And in neither Cale, can any Thii^ whatever, compenlate for the Vfaint of thefc A Memory that is ftuff’d with Sonnds and. Fragment^jnay ferve to amuft the Owner and his Peers, butean never truly infbim any one. In ihort, this Good>fenfe preferves a cettain Tenor and Goofifteoce in whatever a Man lays or writes, aod is the moft e&dqal Freinvadve againft Ridicule. But as wc have vainly eaqiiii'd £» it io die Dofior’t F '