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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    [441 taken the Senfc of any Perlbn of Judgment and Candor,befote he phblKh’d it And it was ingenionfly obferT'd,that the Dodor bad taken Care in his Anfwer.to ratify my once exceptionable Introdoftion, by proying the fiij] Validity of his Claim to the merry Dignities in it But as I profels, on all juft Occafions, to contend for the Honour of Grub^iirtfty I affirm that his Sailors and ColRtrSy his Dunghill and Grains^ his Skimmington^ his Rag-man-roll and the like Flowers of Speech, are fufficient to degrade a Mule from the Turrets of Grub-iirttt into a clamorous Filh-Nymph by the Watct'fide. A Gentleman to whom he communicated his difpajfio- nato Anfwer, as he has call’d it, advis’d him by all Means to write like one : But our Author begs to be excus’d, and had rather write like his Brother Conjurer, Dodor *Patridgty who publilh’d a grave Anfwer to Squire Bickeriiaffy to difprove his own Death, as Doctor Dak has to my Fancy of his Under-fcrtbbling himlelf, which I confefs he has fo- lidly reiuted. I find if 1 have any future Dilpofition to Merriment, I inuft tell my Adverfary direSly of it, for he confeffes he’s (aJapt to cott- found JhingSy and indeed ’tis very clear, he’s bad at diftinguiihing them. My infat fable Lufl of Scribling is objefted with as bad a Grace by this daily Pedlar in itas my Chitt-ChatyBs. Since aPrcG was erc£tcd in Caro- above 7 Years paft,I never intruded on it but thrice, ’till on this Occa- fion : Once with alhort Eflay on Inoculation, which this Perfon fubmitted to the Imputation of,and twice with Amulcmentsof a diftcrent Kind. While my Adverfary fairly wore out the Publick Patience j and never liftening to the general Contempt o( his proper ProduQions, drove on, till it became nc- ceflary to inform him, that his Silence would be acceptable. Thb Necellity of defending my Pratbice publickly on this Occafion, common Reafon and the general Opinion have fufficiently aflerted. Do’s Do£lor Dale imagine his Ignorance and Malevolence in this Cafe, were re¬ peated no where, but in the Hearing of himfelf and his Acquaintance ? But ’twere eafily demonftrable, that he has utter’d them in more than Six Companies himfelf. And wou’d not one good Houfe of Intelligence ef- fedlually circulate any fcandalous Rumour ! Among the Reft of his minute Calumnies,he has afferted my reading tb^/^J Cafe about publickly,beforc-it was printed. Now, if 1 had, I real- I? a P» i9» h 16^