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 lead, when I tell you, that they made a Refo lution, not only to take Poflefiion of the Honey, but to finoak out the Bees *, and that they were eagerly inclined to have executed this laft Particular, I fhall fhow you by-and-by, in a Couple of remark¬ able Inftances. The 3d Particular in Difpute is more properly phyfical, than any of the preceding. For it con¬ cerns three Things that were order’d by Dr. Blair, viz. JVhether weak Water Sack Whey, or ftrong pure Port Whey, ought to have been given Mr. Baker ? JVhether bleeding him at all, was not im¬ proper, on Account of its being a critical Night ? and the third is, JVhether the Tinffura Antiphthyfica, which was given him among other Things in a Julap, was not a poifonous Ingredient, which had never been prefcribed by any Phyfician ? At the Beginning of the Difpute, the firfl Thing obje&ed to Dr. Blair^ was his having changed Mr. Baker’s Drink, from the Whey which was made with pure unmix’d red Port Wine, to a weak Whey made of Sack and Water. To which he gave this Anfwer, That as he found Mr. Baker delirious, (which is attefled by the Family, and acknowledged by the Phyficians themfelves) it was wrong to con¬ tinue that ftrong intoxicating Whey, and therefore proper to give him fomething that was lefs hurtful to his Head. Now Dr. Rogers had a private Reafon perfonally to refent this Alteration, becaufe, on his being called in upon the other three, it was by his peculiar Dire&ion, that Mr. Baker's Drink was changed from Sack Whey to that made with pure Port. For he thought he could flop the Patient’s Lax by its Aflringency, without attending to the Danger of the Delirium, which he was thus in- creafing by every Draught. It grieved him there¬ fore to the Heart, to think that Dr, Blair had laid afide