An account of Dr. Quincy's Examination of Dr. Woodward's state of physick and diseases. In a letter to the Freethinker.

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1719
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Credit: An account of Dr. Quincy's Examination of Dr. Woodward's state of physick and diseases. In a letter to the Freethinker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1*] or my own time about one, who fcarce opens his Mouth without making a Bull ? Of which to give you an In- ftance or two, he talks of Men Page 83' whofie curiofity may incite them to overlook this controversy which is certainly an odd kind of Curioiity. I wonder what Country Man he is ! This Repullulation, fays he, fage 93- fpeakiug of the Small Pox, is known in many infiances of this Difiemper, by thofe who have been converfant' therewith, though rare¬ ly, and five hundred more fuch blunders, that will not bear repeating. To name only one other, the Fage78- Animal Spirits are in the fServes as manifefijy, according to him, as the Blood is in the Arteries and Veins; which muft mean, that we fee, and feel, and tafte thofe Spi¬ rits, as we do the Blood : For if their exigence be only inferr’d from eflfefts, that may be afcrib’d to another caufe, they are plainly difputable ; and there¬ fore far from manifeft, though they Ihould really exift. Yet all fuch Im¬ proprieties might be overlook’d, were it not for the impurities of his Style, which it is a Million to one but he takes