Nature the best physician: a matter of fact, evinced from a most remarkable variolous case, communicated by the learned Dr. Wilmot to the Late Dr. Mead. And now set forth in a poetical narrative / [David Maxwell].

  • Maxwell, David
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[1756]
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Credit: Nature the best physician: a matter of fact, evinced from a most remarkable variolous case, communicated by the learned Dr. Wilmot to the Late Dr. Mead. And now set forth in a poetical narrative / [David Maxwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Solvere. Non licet Hoc faltera, radiante Diurnuni Ter prius aut Curfti quam Sol quater egerit Orbem. Nam fcitote, Lues qusecunque occurrerit atra, Petifandas etiam Vires occurrere, quas heu ! Longa Valetudo, modo ConjeCtura fit apta, Profternet magis, aut minus, hie ft faeviat, iile aut* Morbus, protra&is torquens Cruciatibus Artus. In English thus: viz. But while Apollo fires my Breaft, Let me One Precept here fuggeft ; One Rule lay down by all the Herd Of Doctors late to be Rever’d. Then, be the Sick or Old, or Young, Plebeian, or from Heroes fprurig, A He, or She, a Wife, or Virgin, What Ufes e’er may flow from Purging, Should th’ Alveal Du £t in Either Sex Or be by Nature form’d too lax ; Or by repeated Clysters Stools Oft forc’d, (Attend, and Learn, Ye Schools !j You, tho’ the Doctrine’s folely Mine, * May, or may not, a Purge injoin. Such an Inteftinal Vagary Being Here near quite unneceflary : At leaft, until th’ enliv’ning Sun | Has fome Diurnal Courfes run. For, Know Ye, e’er We Aught eflay. The Strength We o’er and o’er mult weigh , * Which Ails, if founded right my Guefs, Protracted f more impair, or less. * May, or may not, a Purge injoin.] How odd ft ever this Strain may feem, the DoCtrine is deducible fron what Dr. Mead fays on the fame Occafion. ■f More impair, or less.] Dr. Mead likewife haj uttered his Sentiments on the identical Contingency in J Manner, that does fingular Honour to this Pafiage of oui Spanish DoCtor. His Words run thus: viz. 44 Viribuj 44 enim aegri in primis confulendum eft, quas longa va- 44 letudo plus minus labefaCtavit.”-Reader, a,i length Adieu ! David Maxwell]
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