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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    [ ? ] fame virulent manner: To which let me add, that the loudeft Oppofers of fuch publick Benefaftors have often en¬ deavour’d to retrieve their own Re¬ putation, efpecially in Phyfick, by fi- lently falling into their pradtice; which I am credibly inform’d is now done by fome of thofe very Perfons, who ap¬ pear the moft incens’d againft the ‘Dottor. Indeed it is extremely ihock- ing, to fee Men leave the Argument (though to be fure they think it their Intereft to have it forgot) and meanly to cavil at the Writer’s Lan¬ guage and Deportment. Whoever knows tire ‘Doffor, knows at the fame time, that he wants no Apology in thefe refpefts. But what if he did ? Are thefe Points any thing to his Skill or to the Argument ? A Gentleman, who admires Beauty and Innocence wherever he fees them join’d, having been where the Difcourfe was of Beau¬ ty, Mifs Meadows, faid he, is one of the fineft young Ladies 1 ever faw, notwithftanding (he has lately had the Small Pox ; to which, though moft of the Company readily agreed, yet he cOu’d never perfuade two of the leaft agreeable Females there to own it; B x for