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

Date:
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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    • [ *7 ] ' takes for Urbanity. This puts me in mind of his Panegyrical Flouriflies on the Gentlemen he defends, which no body would Criticize or perhaps mind, were it hot for his execrable ufage of the Gentleman he oppofes. His Patrons [are not only Perfons of Character (for which I hope they can vouch more than his Word) and very confiderable in the Faculty •, but alfo Perfons that have deferv’d Dr. Wood¬ ward's Envy, by a Superiority of Re¬ putation and Praftice, and vaftly Su¬ perior to taking any notice of him. Paper-Quarrels are'as much below Dr. Mead's notice in particular, as his Character is Superior to all man¬ ner of Competition with the Pro¬ moters of them. Sometimes Dr. Quincy's Matters are Men of the great- eft Eminence in the Faculty, and at other times the moft eminent nowin the Profeflion, thofe of the greateft Eminence in it; which cannot but in¬ finitely oblige all the reft of the Phv- ficians in England, no lefs than Dr. Woodward. ’Tis comical enough to fee all Excellencies beftow’d with fo prodigal a Hand, by a Man, who does not appear to have any one good