Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair].

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
[1790?]
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Credit: Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fure, and a iincere refpedt for the candour and liberality of that ingenious profcflbr. I have often been aftonifhed to find men of learning and fcience, from ignorance of the knowledge neceffary to form a fkilf .1 phyfician, commend, as miracles of medical fkill, perfons who in their converfation and manners evinced the ignorance and vulgarity of a groom. How can this be accounted for but by fuppofmg that even men of erudition deem learning and fcience to be totally de- tached from medical fkill; and that bald experience is unconnected with medical prin- ciple ? Plow therefore can we be furprifed that empiricifm is countenanced by all ranks, when the moft difeerning have formed fo falfe an effimate of the healing art !* B. I have had repeated opportunities of making the fame obfervation. A moderate knowledge of medical prin- ciples would be of great ufe to the clergy^ efpecially thofe who refide in the country. * This firidture is not only applicable to quacks, but to Come blockheads in the feveral departments of the regulars. The