An account of a medical controversy in the city of Cork, in which five physicians are engaged; with the remarkable manner of its being hitherto conducted : To which are subjoined two letters from Dr. Mead and one from Dr. Frewin, to the different persons concern'd.

Date:
1749
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of a medical controversy in the city of Cork, in which five physicians are engaged; with the remarkable manner of its being hitherto conducted : To which are subjoined two letters from Dr. Mead and one from Dr. Frewin, to the different persons concern'd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    10/72 (page 2)
    the whole is ftill the fame: Difeord therefore, fays he, in the fame manner is always of a certain Hated Quantity in the World, though it may often ap¬ pear unequally parcelled out ; of late, perhaps, it lay together in a Heap upon the middle Continent of Europe, and now it feems to have gone draggling into particular States, as Holland, Corfica, Italy, or our three Kingdoms ; though it threatens foon to move Northward in a large Body, to poffefs the different Coaftsof the Baltick. It is much the fame in a particular Kingdom, for if in the Summer Sea- fon it may be lurking among Gentlemens Seats, or Election Boroughs, yet youffl be fure to find it, in the cold Weather, huddled together in great Towns, and more efpecially in a Metropolis, where it is apter to fharpen and ferment like other Fluids. Now with this Confideration, one Place may be looked upon as a kind of Drain upon another, according as this Tide may pour itfelf into different Channels, Ireland fometimes draws it off from Great Britain, and in this RefpeCt, this fame City of Cork has of late engroffed the Quantum al¬ lowed for this Ifland, fo as in fome Meafure to dry up the red of the Kingdom.. Happy therefore, and wife was the Difpcfition of Providence, which has allowed of thefe Iffues in a Kingdom, which may fo ufefully drain off this morbid Humour from the reft of the Body Politick; and it is to be hoped, that in this Age of Projectors an able Head may come forth and find out fome beneficial Scheme of diverting this Peftilence of Contention towards the Hills of Kerry, or the Bogs oh Conaught, where it may be hemmed in, rarified or condenfed, as fhall feem moft proper, while the other Parts of this Kingdom may enjoy a State of perfeCt Tranquillity in the Bond of univerfal Chrif- tian AffeCtion. The