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.
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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    til fant; artd indeed have naturally reminded what Celsus lays fb jul^.and candidly in fuch a Cafe, ^ Since ^hypek can avail Hdibing^ where Na^ ture is deficient; and the little Advantage refultmg from the Endeavours of ah Artifl in acute CafeSj is more pardonable than in chronical ones: For in the former^ if our Attempts are not fpeedily fuccefsfuf the Death of the Tat tent puts a fudden End to any further Efforts : IPhereas the latter allow Time for Deliberation and a Variety of Remedies. But if it may be judg’d unrealbnable, to have expefted the Candor of the Latin Hippocrates^ where there was not the lead Shadow of hh SkliJ, his Genius or his Eloquence j he may yet properly be ask'd, what inno¬ cent View, he could have, in proclaiming an Error, if there rcaCy had been one, after fo iinfortiinatc an Event j and how confiftcrit this could bo with that Friivdfhip and Good-neighbourhood \\q has accus’d me ot viola- fl.ug ? Mis fird Rcfl:ctio IS o:i mo were (like a*l the reft/ in m/ Ablencc, and before liic Pcrlons principally altered. And was not this Procedure, lb Ji!igv.neious to me, truly inhumane with Regard to them? Dii he in* tend to kflen their Affliilions,by iiiloiming them their Infant was deftroy'd thro’ Ignorance or Neglcft ? The Confequence indeed has made it evi¬ dent, that I am acknowledg'd, by their J'lllice, to have done my Duty in this Cafe, howev^ impotent it prov^ \ but had they not been truly ra¬ tional and ccnfideiate, is it improbaldej that fuch Iftiputations might have determined ISiem to a continual atid bitter Rclentmcnt againftoic ? I do not care to charge him with a direct Intention of fuch Conlcquen- ccs, however vilely he may have traduc'd me othcrwilc; but if he had truly no ill or mean View in this, I cannot fee how he will cfcapc being compar'd to the Pfalmifl's Fool, who Icatters Arrows, Fire and Dc'athi dvA lays. Am not I in Sport ? The ridiculous Stuff of his^ Refentnient^ Relation and Affeltion is fuch miferable Declamation, that many a School-boy has done Penijance for much better. How came it, that from the Day of her Inoculation, to that of her Deccaie, this affeftionate Relation faw her but twice; and when he knew Ihe ficken'd, gave himfelf no farther Trouble, than'to lay, as he pafs'd thro' the Houfc, that if her Ppek did not come out fxn, he'd blifter her ? Why did he never mention thole Bliftexs to me, and convince me ot the Indieition for them, in.a Cafe fo near and dear to hiin? But