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 Ignorance of thefe Gentlemen, in an Age fo enlightened as this is, when Anatomy is fo well known, is really lamentable *, and their attacking Dr Blair from Arguments of their own Want of Knowledge in that Branch of Phyfick, is bringing us back to thefe Monkifh Days of Barbarity, when Galileo was perfecuted far averting the Planetary Sylfem. Nay, every Child is a Judge of the Difpute, and may confute them, by putting his Finger above his Eye, where he may feel the Pulfe of the Artery very difundly. But I fhall difeufs to you their firagling Quotations a little more anatomically, from the very Pajjages they have adduced them- felves. They pretend then, that JVinflow fays little about that Branch of the internal Carotid ; to con¬ firm which, obferve their Art, they found he talk’d of it in his Anatomy, in the 74th Numb, upon the Arteries, they extrad the firft Part of a Sentence there *, but finding the latter Part of it proved the very Point in Difpute againft themfelves, they there¬ fore carefully left it out, and that you might not trace them, they did not chufe to mark the Place from whence they took it, in the Margin : But the falfifying of this Pafifage, was a miferable Device, pradtifed upon an Author who is in every Body’s Hands. For Winjlow*s Words are, 44 As the ln- <c ternal Carotid leaves the Bony Canal, to enter the Cranium, it fends off a Branch thro* the 44 Sphenoidal Fiffure to the Orbit, and Eye, and 44 foon afterwards another thro’ the Foramen Op- 44 ticum, by which it communicates with the Ex- 44 ternal Carotid *.5’ This Communication is the very Thing in Difpute, and thefe Gentlemen, out of their great Wifdom, brought this Paffage to prove there was none there ^ which is an excellent Evidence, * Sec Winilow’s Anatomy, 4U). LonJ. 1733. Of die Ar¬ teries, i\ 0 74.