Remarks on the Reverend Dr. Hancocke's Febrifugum magnum. Wherein are shewn the absurdity and inconsistency of the Doctor's reasoning, and the inevitable danger consequent upon the use of cold water in fevers / By James Gardner.
- Gardner, James.
- Date:
- 1723
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the Reverend Dr. Hancocke's Febrifugum magnum. Wherein are shewn the absurdity and inconsistency of the Doctor's reasoning, and the inevitable danger consequent upon the use of cold water in fevers / By James Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Had the Doctor been truly apprised of the Truth of what he mentions, P. ] o, and i !. viz. IVe may reafon a little upon our Experience, and Rcajon will- help us to apply our Experience to parallel Cafes but then we mujl be pretty fure the Cafes are parallel; I lay, if he had duly confidered this, he fcarcely would have ventured to publifh his Farrago. Can the Dodlor imagine, that every one who reads his Book, is capable of knowing whether his Cafe is exactly parallel with the Cafes before-menti- on’d, wherein he fays Cold Water has made a Cure? 1 allure him, there is no Poffibility of any fuch thing, for his Accounts of Matters are fo ccnrus’d, injudicious, and impelled:, that it is impoffible that even a Phylician fhould give a proper Determination in the Af¬ fair. For the Proof of this 1 will here infert only one Cafe, as a Specimen, a ccord i n g as h e h a s gi v e n u s t h e R e 1 a tion. The hr ft that 1 (hall mention is in P. aa. wherein he delivers this Account. —There](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30384096_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
