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
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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.

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    The Animofities which have lately bulled People here, have been either Ecclejtaftical, or Medical, for the other learned Profeftlon of the Law, which the Spirit of Contention formerly feems to have taken up as its cholen Abode, it here emptied, at prefenr, to fill up the other two. And what is ft ill more remarkable, and which, indeed, fupports the former Theory, is. That when the Clergy are by the Ears, the Phyficians are at their Eafe, and when the Phyficians rife to Battle, the other Body feem becalmed. Though it is hard to fay in either of thefe Cafes, whether it is the Spirit of mutual Forgivenefs, or that their Attention is taken off by this new Uproar, or perhaps only a ftiorf Reft after the Fatigue of Fighting, whether it is one or all of thefe, is not my Bufinefs to fettle, nor am I, indeed, fufficiently inftrudted fo to do. Ac prefent I have only Time to give you a fhort Ac¬ count of the Medical Battle, and fhall referve the other for an after Amufement. The Phyfical’Controverfy then, has been carried on by four Phyficians on the one Side, of the Names of Rogers, Flaherty, Bonbonous and Connelly and on the other Side, by one Dr. Blair; It feems thefe four Gentlemen had attended one Mr. Baker a Merchant of this City, during a violent Fever, whom after ten or twelve Days, they gave over as a dying Perfon, or were fo underftood by the Fa¬ mily of the Perfon indifpofed, as indeed, one of the Phyficians came, as deputed from the reft, to defire his Relations fhould fend for a Clergyman to communicate the difagreeable Tidings in a proper Manner to his Wife. One of thefe Relations then bethought of fending for this Dr. Blair, to try if he could do any Thing for Mr. Baker, who was thus given over, and at the fame Time they fent for one of the other Phyficians, to communicate what B 2 had