An answer to Doctor Kinglake showing the danger of his cooling treatment in the gout / by John Ring.

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An answer to Doctor Kinglake showing the danger of his cooling treatment in the gout / by John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    prove, and to wield a spear in the service of humanity. He even goes so far as to assert, that, till this auspicious era shall arrive,” when he shall be as strenuous a knight-er- rant for the virtue of cold water, as Gil Bias is for that of warm, ** the savages, or rather sages, of America, will enjoy the exclusive advantage of that remedy, in the hot stage of such complaints.” He considers the savages of America as sages, and those savages of America con- sider the beavers of America as rational be- ings. This is confounding the reason of man, who was made in the image of God, with the blind instinct of the brute cre- ation. Such sages as Dr. Kinglake, would wish us to believe, that the instinct of savages is as infallible as the opinion of the Doctor himself, and can never err; and, from the hyperbolical compliment that is paid to those savages, as well as from the style in which it is expressed, we are led to suspect, that one of them took up the pen, and in- serted it; for we can never suppose a man of liberal education to be quite so ignorant, or so malignant.